Nash Ramji was born in Soroti, Uganda. He arrived in the UK as a refugee at the age of twelve and settled with his parents in Birmingham in the early 1970s.

His secondary education was at a comprehensive school there. Following obtaining a law degree from Polytechnic Of Wolverhampton in the 1980s, he attended the College of Law in Chester.

In 1991, he was admitted on the roll of solicitors and has since worked in the legal profession as a solicitor. He settled in Loughborough in 1995. Currently he is a director in a law firm in Leicester.

During his long career, one of his proudest moments, apart from the birth of his two children, was that he served the community as a Justice of the Peace. Being appointed to serve as a magistrate in 2005 was an absolute honour for him. He sat on many cases in the magistrate’s court, dealing with adult criminal cases. One particular case concerned honour killing. This is where the idea about writing this book came from.

The Price of Honor is the story of the Rehman family. They are happy to welcome a son after five daughters, but fate has something else in store for them. When tragedy hits their family, the five Rehman daughters have to leave their own childhood behind and look after their newly born brother. With a strict father and a mean stepmother, life becomes hard for the girls. This story has many different strands to it, cruelty to children, forced or arranged marriages, violent domestic relationship, sexual orientation of a Muslim boy and about the harrowing effects of honour killing and how it can rip a family apart.

Nash Ramji was part of the DESIblitz Literature Festival in 2023 and featured in the event Emerging Writers on Wednesday, October 25, 2023.

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