Gilded Balloon, EdinburghHenry Naylor's impressive work tells the story of a modern-day British jihadi bride in Syria and a Victorian bluestocking in Afghanistan " and manages to conjure comedyThe Victorians offered free passage to India to spinsters who were willing to become wives to bachelor officers and administrators of the Raj. Now, 175 years later, Islamic State (Isis) flies to Syria young British women who ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM on August 12, 2015