Lisa Ray Instagram – Current read. #10minutes38secondsinthisstrangeworld by Turkish-British rockstar author @shafakelif begins with the startling premise that passing out of the body does not happen instantly, but in fact the human mind continues #10minutes38seconds after the moment of death. As she writes ‘It seemed to Leila that human beings exhibited a profound impatience with the milestones of their existence. For one thing they assumed you automatically became a wife or husband the moment you said ‘I do!’ ….Perhaps it was not that different when it came to death. People thought you changed into a corpse the instant you exhaled your last breath. But things were not clear-cut like that.’ My first read of this formidable woman’s work, who dedicated this novel ‘To the women of Istanbul and to the city of Istanbul, which is, and has always been, a she-city’ Thanks @shamimsarif for turning me on to this novel. Chandigarh, India