Birth—
Where—Lahore
Education—Cambridge University

Bibliography

• • To Lahore, With Love (2020)
  • Set Me Free (2016)

Born in Lahore to an Indian father and a mother of Iranian, Afghan and Indian descent, Belitz was brought up in Hampshire – a place starkly different to her parent’s home city of Lahore, and where she was the only Asian person in her school.

She is an author and renowned equal rights lawyer who graduated in law and creative writing at Brunel and  Cambridge University respectively. She has post-graduate qualifications from the Guildford University of Law and lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and two sons.

Her debut novel, Set Me Free, was an Amazon best debut, a Herald Scotland Book of the Week and a Lovereading Book of the Year and Hina was named a rising writer (Hive.co.uk).

Following the release of Set Me Free, Hina was approached by Hollywood icon, Morgan Freeman to take part in a National Geographic production, The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman and her interview appears in the episode entitled The Power of Love (presently on Netflix). Hina’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Guardian, the BBC, and elsewhere.

To Lahore, With Love
Addy Mayford has always struggled with her identity. Brought up in a household of stories, food and faith by her Irish mother and Pakistani Nana, she feels constantly torn between the two sides of her upbringing. Since the death of her father, she’s found contentment cooking delicious recipes from his home city of Lahore, despite the protestations of her mother that being a chef is no career for a young woman.