My Khyber Marriage

At the end of the First World War, Morag Murray left her comfortable, safe middle-class existence in Edinburgh, and travelled to the distant stronghold of her husband’s family – in the mountains of Afghanistan. The change meant swapping all that was predictable in her life for adventure and the unknown. In this remarkable autobiography she describes how, during the First World War, she first fell in love with the son of a noble Afghan chieftain, married him, and learnt how to adapt to the ways of his people. Murray’s stories give an intriguing insight into the lives of the mountain tribes, their culture, laws and rigid codes of honour, still very much in evidence in Afghanistan today.