The Chain

The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

By: Chimene Suleyman

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Paperback | 4 September 2025 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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19.6 x 12.9 x 1.9

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'A powerful tribute to female solidarity that you won't be able to stop thinking about' GLAMOUR

'An ode to how women support, protect and uphold each other in a misogynistic world. Read then pass it on' SYTLIST

'Took my breath away from the first page and did not let go of me till the very last' NIKITA GILL

'There is no singular experience of womanhood and we create the chain to remind ourselves of this. We stand beside each other in such a way that we may say, Tell me your story as a woman, and yours, and yours, and yours . . .'

One cold January day, Chimene Suleyman walks out of an abortion clinic to find her boyfriend has vanished. Later she watches as her building's CCTV shows him calmly removing his belongings from her home, erasing himself from the life he has destroyed. Then she discovers he has done this before. But this is not his story. Told with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, The Chain is a love letter to the sisterhood that formed despite (and in spite of) a man who deceived dozens of women. Suleyman shows us just how fiercely women shelter and strengthen one another in a society that asks them to sacrifice themselves for men.

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I was utterly floored by The Chain. In its astonishing specificity it finds a way to speak to huge and unsettling aspects of the human experience. It has the pace of a thriller and the weight of poetry

Has been etched on my soul forever . . . A truly incredible feat as both memoir and story, The Chain took my breath away from the first page and did not let go of me till the very last

Redemptive to read and beautifully written . . . The Chain makes women feel seen and understood, it is deeply powerful

The Chain made me angry, laugh and cry. I tore it apart and gobbled it up. It is stunning. STUNNING

The Chain is revolutionary, it is necessary, succinct in detail and precise, it is both empowering and powerful, deeply moving and courageous, vivid and candid. A compassionate and brilliant memoir

An important book which highlights the fear of simply being a woman in what is still a man's world and how the only way we're going to come out on top is if we unite

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