"It鈥檚 a very raw space for us鈥� we鈥檙e both returning to life鈥�
Rachel Eliza Griffiths' on her husband Salman Rushdie's recovery from knife attack.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths' first novel 'Promise' is published a year after her husband, the author Sir Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a knife attack.
The novel is a story of hope and resistance set during the early phase of the US civil rights movement.
Today鈥檚 Mishal Husain interviewed Rachel Eliza Griffiths to explore the influence of her mother, who was born during the period in which the novel takes place.
Rachel also reflected on the trauma of the near-fatal attack on her husband and said they had both been 鈥渧ery, very grateful and appreciative for the compassion and kindness on an international level鈥� which had been shown to them in its aftermath.
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