1996 Betty Trask Prize (nominee)
The story of nine-year-old Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington. The novel provides a vision of British childhood in the 1960s, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of enormous change.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"A marvellous crash course in Asian/Brummie culture. Funny, moving and packed full of wonderful surprises." - Esther Freud
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