Anita and Me, Paperback/Meera Syal

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 give it no higher recommendation" Laura Tennant, }Guardian{.