When painful disappointment turns into the luckiest escape of your life.
Living in the Middle East was always going to be full of surprises - I knew that when I signed up for it in 1978. Twelve years of sights and smells, awe and wonder, and a generosity like I’d never known - but I hadn’t signed up for what was about to be my biggest test yet.
Finding courage and focus when it’s your one and only option.
Kuwait 1990 - heavily pregnant, summer school was almost at an end, and I’m looking forward to a few weeks at home before baby number 3 arrives. But in the early hours of 1 August, Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, had other plans