#BlogTour: Girl With A Gun by Diana Nammi and Karen Attwood @KarenAAttwood @DianaNammi @unbounders @annecater #GirlWithAGun #DianaNammi #KarenAttwood #RandomThingsTours

Book Synopsis:

Diana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish region of Iran in the 1960s and 70s. She became involved in politics as a teenager and, like many students, played a part in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. But the new Islamic regime tolerated no opposition, and after Kurdistan was brutally attacked, Galavezh found that she had no choice but to become a soldier in the famed military force. She spent twelve years on the front line, and helped lead the struggle for women’s rights and equality for the Kurdish people, becoming one of the Iranian regime’s most wanted in the process. As well as being the startling account of Galavezh’s time as a fighter, Girl with a Gun is also a narrative about family and resilience, with a powerful love story at its heart.

Girl With A Gun is available in ebook and hardback now. You can purchase your copy using the link below.

My Review:

Girl With A Gun was an absolutely fascinating, captivating read which is amazing to think is a true story.

Firstly I had such huge admiration for Diana and the courage she shows by joining the Peshmera soldiers to help defend Kurdistan. I’m really not sure I’d have been able to do the same thing so it was very interesting to follow Diana on her extraordinary journey. I am sorry to say I knew next to nothing about the events of the Iranian revolution so it was fascinating to find out more.

I found this a surprisingly gripping read which is unusual for an autobiography and there was always something happening to keep me gripped. I raced through this book in a couple of days which hardly ever happens as a mother of three kids. There were some truly gut wrenching, shocking moments which will stay with me forever and was quite humbling as I’ve never experienced similar.

Overall I think this was an amazing, important read which I think everyone should read. Diana is a truly inspirational person and I’m very impressed with her continual fight for women’s rights. If I was to have one criticism it’s that I wish it was longer as I’d have loved to have read more about her life in the UK. However I’m hopeful that she’s saved that for a future book!

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Unbound publishers for my copy of this book.

About The Authors:

Diana Nammi spent twelve years on the front line as a Peshmerga before moving to the UK as a political refugee, founding the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation in 2002. In 2014 she won the Special Jury Women on the Move Award from UNHCR and was recognised as one of the BBC’s ‘100 Women’. In 2015 she won the Voices of Courage Award from the Women’s Refugee Commission in New York.

In a twenty-year career as a journalist, Karen Attwood‘s work has been published in all UK national newspapers as well as several international publications. She is a former staff writer at the Independent and the Press Association, and was on the launch team for Abu Dhabi’s first English-language newspaper, the National.