I'd move it to the top of the pile. I've just finished it and it's a wonderful book. As to burkha's and veils; I have no problems with women wearing head scarfs and the like but things like the burkha which is designed maliciously to repress women is an abomination. The phrase "out of sight out of mind" i think perfectly describes what was intended for the burkha. There are muslim women throught the world risking execution and lesser but equally horrid punishments for trying to gain the right to schooling, to freedom of thought. To actually being allowed to own property drive a car, or even to leave the house without being forced to be accompanied by a "male member of the family". Yet in Britain where those rights already exist there are women that voluntarily wear the burkah and undermine everything those courages women elsewhere are struggling to achieve, and they disgust me. I sincerily hope it is only a tiny minority and the rest are forced by their family and community, but i've no proof. In either case, someone is repressing women in this country and it has to stop.