Paul is left blind after he sees nurses do something strange to another patient. Plunged into darkness, he now sees things other people can’t.
Mysterious deaths in hospitals; people forced out of work and into poverty; fascism, fundamentalism, child marriage and earthquakes – what has all this got to do with the Cobalts in coalition with the Goldens? Who is targeting nurses, policemen, the poor, the disabled, the vulnerable and the hardworking in Britain, and more importantly - why? Will Paul ever regain his eyesight? Who will win the battle over the souls and lives of the British people and who are the sides fighting to gain control?
People are being caused to suffer varying social injustices, their physical and mental ability stretched to breaking point, and so, too, is the environment. Paul sets himself on a path to find out the truth behind these strange and dangerous events.
People are made to live a dystopian existence, ignored by uncaring politicians and their politics. People are suffering poverty; unemployment. They want their basic human rights to live without starvation, and seek social justice and socioeconomic freedom; will they turn to criminality or remain on the side of law?
This is a story about social injustice and the many feeling the suffering. It is a story about the inequality, poverty, and unfair circumstances millions of people are forced into across UK and the people’s power to affect change through democratic process.
Hawaa Ayoub, author of When a Bulbul Sings, has experienced the traumas of forced child-marriage first hand. She hopes to raise awareness through writing about child-marriage.
She lived in Yemen for nineteen years, the first eight years in a remote region whose inhabitants hadn’t changed their way of life since ancient times, in an area at the time inaccessible to outsiders including Yemenis from outside the region.
When a Bulbul Sings is her first novel.
She writes about forced child marriage in a bid to raise awareness globally to help towards ending child-marriage in Yemen and other countries where millions of underage girls are either forced or entered into underage marriage. Having gone through forced child-marriage to an adult, Hawaa Ayoub knows the child-bride not only suffers the traumas of rape and being rudely thrust into the adult world, but a child-bride can also live with the psychological, emotional and physical consequences throughout her life.
When a Bulbul Sings is an objective story where the aim is to explain, highlight and criticise forced and child marriage.