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This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Meena, a young girl growing up in the only Punjabi family in a 1970s Black Country mining village. Meena spends her days happily getting into scrapes with the other local children until one day the impossibly cool Anita enters her life. Suddenly Meena knows exactly who she wants to be but is Anita all that she seems? Soon Meena's world is turned upside down as she is caught between two very different cu...

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Anita and Me, which has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the British village of Tollington. With great warmth and humor, Meera Syal brings to life a quirky, spirited 1960s mining town and creates in her protagonist what the Washington Post calls a "female Huck Finn." The novel follows nine-year-old Meena through a year spiced with pilfered sweets and money, bad words, ...

La vida no es sólo ji, ji, ja, ja, o al menos eso piensan las protagonistas de esta novela. Las vivencias de Tania, Chila y Sunita, treintañeras indias que viven en Londres, componen un mosaico en el que se combinan la amistad, la traición y las contradicciones surgidas del choque entre culturas. A veces picante y divertida, a veces amarga, la novela gira en torno a los lazos que estas mujeres mantienen con sus raíces, aunque asuman aspectos t...

The long-awaited new novel from the author of "Anita And Me". In Little India, East London, Shyama, aged 48, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. In a rural village in India, young Mala trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape. When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise their dreams. But will fate guarantee them both happiness?...

The story of Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington, from award-winning screenwriter Meera Syal. This hilarious novel is a set text for GCSE WJEC and Edexcel.

Meer Syal has created an indelible portrait of a close-knit group of Indian women living in London. Caught between two cultures, three childhood friends-Chila, Sunita, and Tania-are expected to revert to being obedient mothers and wives. But their world explodes when Tania makes a documentary, starring Chila and Sunita, about contemporary urban Indian Life. The result is an unforgettable story of friendship, marriage, betrayal, and the difficu...

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Stage adaptation of Meera Syal's 1996 award-winning semi-autobiographical novel.

Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still young. But she has finally found happiness with Toby, a man ten years her junior. She and Toby want to have a child together, but Shyama's doctor tells her that her womb has become "inhospitable."("An inhospitable womb! There, she had been looking for a title for her autobiography.") While Shyama and Toby begin their se...

Debut novel from Meera Syal, who wrote the screenplays to "Bhaji on the Beach" and "My Sister Wife". This is the story of nine-year- old Meena, an Indian girl growing up in the sixties, daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington. "Anita and Me" is full of pleasure. The book is expertly structured and engagingly written, illuminated throughout by Meena's ironical reverence and robustness of spirit. I can g...

An Indian "Waiting to Exhale", this hilarious and moving new novel by the award-winning author of "Anita and Me" is the indelible portrait of a group of Indian women living in London and what happens when one of them makes a documentary starring the other two.