sentences:  In the books and in interviews, Muhsen states that she and her sister had been sent to Yemen under the assumption that they were going on holiday to meet the paternal side of their family.Muhsen asserts that neither she nor her sister were aware of their father's plans, although her sister Nadia says that her father showed her a photograph of her future husband, Mohammed, in the UK, and that she knew she was going to be married.On their arrival in [[Maqbanah]], Zana, 15 and Nadia, 13 learned from [[Abdul Khada]] that she was the spouse of a teenage son of the father's friend.