Bought from a charity store in Cork, Ireland, for reading and raying or releasing. The cover on this edition is different.
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A review for this from Amazon:

"Once upon a time in the not so distant past, a boy met a girl. Big deal, you might say, so what? It happens all the time. However, when Jack met Zena their lives were set to change forever.
We all know the story of Romeo and Juliet, the star crossed lovers but this is no fictional tale and goes to prove how is so often said, that the truth is much stranger than fiction.

Living in a Yorkshire town, Jack is white. The object of his affection is Zena. She is from a Pakistani family of strong Muslims and expected to marry the man chosen for her, a man she has met once at the tender age of 14, a man she doesn't love - could never love.

When is becomes clear that her family will not accept them as a couple, they decide to run away together and marry. Before they know it, Zena has a £9,000 theft charge against her and her family has hired a private detective and a bounty hunter, with one aim, to kill them.

What follows is a inspirational tale of outstanding courage and commitment, of fear and of hope. Forced to live in bed and breakfast accommodation across the country, never being able to settle anywhere for any length of time, Jack and Zena turn to the authorities for help. Enter, a whole assortment of characters, the police, the DSS, Victim Support, politicians and journalists.

The couple are subsequently passed from pillar to post. No one really wants their sort of trouble, so they are moved from place to place like some sort of baggage and like some sort of farce or comedy of errors, just when you think that things are looking up, things go more wrong than you could possibly imagine...

This book will leave you appalled that such a thing could happen in Britain today and it will make you sad to think that a once cherished daughter could be so mercilessly hunted down for loving someone who had not been chosen for her by her family... in a last ditch attempt for freedom and acceptance, Jack wrote to John McCarthy. The result was this book - a book that should surely be read."

The summary of Amazon explains the book enough in detail without spoiling it too much.

Jack, a white guy, falls in love with Zena (and Zena falls in love with Jack), a girl from the same street where his sister lives, but whose family is strict on their Pakistani background and morals, and they want her to marry someone of their interest. After months of trying to hide their relationship from her family, they have little choice but to flee to be together. This book was hard to put away once started - strong as their love to each other, and saddening: how come no one and no organization could help them earlier to get them a new life? Months and months in hiding, in beds and breakfasts, with incredible fights with bureacracy, going to sleep at nights with hunger, being like animals on edge when they see Asians for the fear of bounty hunters and for being killed.
I just could not put the book away once I started reading it.

Jack & Zena in 2006 + in Times (both links include more details of the book so skip if you plan to read it first.)

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Off to BethanieKay (with a few nice teas) :)

What a surprise to receive this in the mail today ... and with some lovely teas. Thanks bunches! :) This looks like an intriguing story ... looking forward to reading it.

p.s. Anna ... My kitty is sniffing and rubbing ALL over this book! I think he smells your kitties >^..^<

:)

I really would still like to read this book ... but the story seems like something that okyrhoe in Athens also might like to read, as I think she enjoys books that are somewhat intense and thought-provoking.

I'm getting ready to head to Greece to see my fiance, so I'm going to take this book with me in the hopes that I can meet up with okyrhoe while I'm there. If it interests her, I'll hand it to her and maybe it will make its way back to me someday :)

Happy travels, little book!
Kalo taxidi, ligo biblio!
Καλό ταξίδι, λίγο βιβλίο!

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Giving this to okyrhoe when I meet her for lunch in Athens next week.

Met up with BethanieKay in Athens, and she gave me two books. Thanks so much!

Oh my... just read the blurb on the back cover, what it's about... :-))

I don't know what upset me the most, Zeena's situation, or the fatalism of her boyfriend, who seems to depend a bit too much on the welfare state to keep him afloat.

Reserved for loveamystery's Two Worlds Virtual Bookbox (round 2).

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Selected by annimanni from the VBB, and now on its way to Finland. Enjoy!

Received with thanks :)

Enjoy!