Aneeta Prem
The author’s name is spelled Aneeta Prem. Aneeta is pronounced ‘uh-NEE-tuh’. Use MBE where a formal credit requires the honour; do not alter or abbreviate the surname.
Language with purpose
Words should clarify harm, not stereotype people.
A concise guide for readers, teachers, journalists, librarians and international partners discussing the novel and its safeguarding context.
Forced marriage
A marriage in which one or both people do not consent, or cannot consent, and pressure or abuse is used. Pressure may be physical, emotional, psychological, sexual or financial.
Arranged marriage
A marriage in which families may introduce or support the couple, but both people remain free to choose whether to marry. Consent separates an arranged marriage from a forced marriage.
Dishonour abuse
This site uses dishonour abuse to reject the suggestion that abuse contains honour. UK official sources may use ‘so-called honour-based abuse’; the terms should remain searchable without dignifying the abuse.
Coercion
Pressure, threats, intimidation, isolation, deception or control used to remove a person’s genuine freedom to choose.
Survivor and victim
Use the term a person chooses for themselves. Do not define someone only by what was done to them, and never imply that family, faith, nationality or community makes abuse inevitable.