social upheaval and also social revolutions by breaking barriers to social norms that previously would not have voiced such complex, harrowing or life changing texts. Each text has been insightful, lending to this book aspects of ‘voice’ that normally society perhaps would not typically recognise. As an audience it is our responsibility now to ensure that these ‘unreleased voices’ are no longer ‘entombed’ and are free to be heard, therefore allowing the lost and misrepresented voices of Afghanistan to be finally heard and heard aloud.