when the said walk end

Book excerpt: Prologue Noora was sitting at a front-view table in the White and Blue Restaurant of the Greek Club, overlooking the Qaitbay Citadel, the old port and the Mediterranean Sea. This was where her journey of transformation began more than ten years ago. A journey that had taken her and several of her friends along a ride through the treacherous workings of Fate: awry choices and ignored blessings, confused identities and stubborn egos, bad marriages and worse friendships, toxic parents and dogmatic cultures, religious fundamentalism, adultery and depression, and finally, change. Always change. Inevitable change.