The Most Beautiful Coincidence

About this book

Malak leaves Aswan for Cairo carrying the ambition to become a fashion designer and her father's warning that the city can be both beautiful and treacherous. A chance friendship with the ill Esraa brings her into the influential Abdeen family's orbit and into conflict with Marwan, a handsome, arrogant doctor certain that affection will bend to his will. The novel connects friendship, class, prejudice, illness, and romance as one encounter reshapes several lives.