S F Hopkins

Suzie Hopkins wrote Taken for women, to mark their fortitude in the face of millennia of onslaught at the hands of some (and let us stress that some) men and for men to press home the message that women are not simply waiting to be the playthings of lustful and rampaging men, and that intimacy between two people who love each other will always be preferable to the alternative.

The book delivers its adult message in an adult way, but also with the experience of a woman who knows how it feels to live in the patriarchal societies of the Arabian Gulf. You may spit with fury at the unkindness that some (and once again we stress that "some") men can inflict on women, simply because they're bigger, they're stronger and they have the power.

Suzie Hopkins is a woman of our time and this is very much a book for today.