1 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Chambers, Claire, Nafhesa Ali and Richard Phillips, editors. A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire. London: HopeRoad, 2020. Pp. 284. UK £10.99 (paper). ISBN: 9781916467194. Phillips, Richard, Claire Chambers, Nafhesa Ali, Kristina Diprose and Indrani Karmakar. Storying Relationships: Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love. London: Zed Books, 2021. Pp. 212. UK £ 76.50 (ebook). ISBN: 9781786998460. Review by Amy Burge Published online: February 2022 http://www.jprstudies.org It’s not often that an academic research project successfully and meaningfully combines literary analysis, creative writing, and sociological research. These two publications – one a collection of creative writing by Muslim women (2020), the other an academic book (2021) – emerged from a UK funded research project, ‘Storying Relationships’, that asked “how young British Muslims, particularly those with Pakistani heritage, talk and think about their personal relationships” (“About Us: Storying Relationships”). Reading these two books together offers a holistic overview of the project and its findings. A Match Made in Heaven and Storying Relationships join a number of recent publications focused on Muslim experiences of romance, love and desire; from graphic novels (e.g., Satrapi) to chick lit (e.g., Malik), romance (e.g., Jalaluddin) to memoir (e.g., Janmohamed), and Young Adult fiction (e.g., S. Khan) to essay collections (e.g., M. Khan, It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race ). What is common to these predecessors and to both A Match Made in Heaven and Storying Relationships is their explicit countering of stereotypes of Muslim women as “oppressed, submissive, and forced into arranged marriages by big-bearded men”(Mattu and Maznavi ix). Such characterisations have been prolific in Anglophone literary production, most obviously through the popularity of what Peter Morey has called the ‘Muslim misery memoir’