Burqalicious
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With that said, I hope you all like my story. I’ve tried to stay true to the way my memory serves me, to the way things really happened to me and to the people who surrounded me in Dubai. It’s a place I still read about, still talk about and dream about, and even though I left as a slightly spoilt and slightly fed-up expat, my time there was a turning point in my life. In fact, even if I’d left this story in my memories, only for myself to play over and over and over, I’d still look back on Dubai as being one of the most influential, exciting and special cities in the world.
If you haven’t been there yet, I hope my story will encourage you to visit. And if you have, I hope it had a lasting effect on you, too … preferably for a good reason, and not because you’re still there, banged up in a prison cell.
Becky xxx
About the Author
Becky Wicks was born in 1979. She attended the Gleed School for Girls, (also known as ‘The Virgin Megastore’) in Spalding, England. She studied media production at Lincoln University and was freelance writing from the age of 14. Becky headed to New York City at 21 and worked a number of jobs including an interesting stint as a jello-shot waitress. Back in London, she wrote for mags and websites before heading to Dubai. She currently lives in Sydney.
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Copyright
HarperCollinsPublishers
First published in Australia in 2011
This edition published in 2011
by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited
Copyright © Rebecca Wicks 2011
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Rebecca Wicks
Burqalicious : the Dubai diaries / Rebecca Wicks.
ISBN: 978-0-7322-9248-5 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-0730-49409-6 (ePub)
Wicks, Rebecca — Anecdotes.
Young women — United Arab Emirates — Dubai — Anecdotes. Editors — United Arab Emirates — Dubai — Anecdotes. Dubai (United Arab Emirates) — Social life and customs.
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Photographs courtesy of Rebecca Wicks
Cover and internal design by Natalie Winter