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Summary: 15-year-old Zana Muhsen and her younger sister Nadia, born and raised in Birmingham, went for a six-week holiday with relatives in North Yemen. On their arrival, Zana and her sister discovered that their father had literally sold them into marriage and that they were helpless prisoners. The girls had to adapt to a completely alien way of life, living in primitive stone houses. They suffered rape, beatings and the ordeal of childbirth on mud floors with only old women in attendance. After eight years of misery and humiliation, Zana escaped