Janine di Giovanni, an award-winning reporter renowned for her storytelling, who has covered nearly every violent conflict for the last twenty years, now turns her eyes to Syria.

In this extraordinary book she tells the real stories of that terrible conflict through the experiences of the ordinary people as the war begins to gain momentum. Written with a great sense of humanity, it powerfully and movingly describes what ordinary life is like for people during wartime – how they live, how they endure and how they find the strength to continue.