What book...Victoria Bateman is a writer, economist and historian... are you reading now? Mishal Husain’s Broken Threads – a captivating combination of biography and history, telling the story of her four grandparents amid the partition of India. Victoria devoured this story of a little girl – about the same age as her at the time – with magical abilities... first gave you the reading bug? So many economics books have mistakenly left readers believing that women weren’t central to economic growth. This is why I wrote Economica – the first economic history of the world to explicitly include women (who are, after all, half the population).