I escaped the Taliban: As a 12-year-old family skivvy in Afghanistan, Sola Mahfouz’s
Defiant Dreamsby Sola Mahfouz and Maliana Kapoor (Doubleday £16.99, 320pp)At the beginning of her compelling memoir of escape from Afghanistan, Sola Mahfouz writes: ‘I began to grow up the day my mother told me to stop laughing.’That…