A t first glance, Jamilla and Ameena couldn't be more different. Both are Yorkshire-born teenage girls of South Asian descent; but whereas Jamilla lives with her conservative Muslim family and is quiet, religious and academically bright, the more worldly Ameena masks her insecurity behind a brassy, bawdy persona and lives with her divorced mum.

A timely novel about two British Muslim girls from Yorkshire who are radicalised and set off for Islamist Syria, but soon find that their new reality is a narrow, brutal universe apart from the one they imagined.