Anita And Me

Debut novel from Meera Syal who wrote the screenplays to Bhaji on the Beachand My Sister Wife. This is the story of nineyear old Meena an Indian girlgrowing up ... » 

Debut novel from Meera Syal who wrote the screenplays to Bhaji on the Beachand My Sister Wife. This is the story of nineyear old Meena an Indian girlgrowing up in the sixties daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlandsmining village of Tollington. Anita and Me is full of pleasure. The book isexpertly structured and engagingly written illuminated throughout by Meenasironical reverence and robustness of spirit. I can give it no higherrecommendation Laura Tennant Guardian. «