Anita and me

By Meera Syal

Subjects: Medicine in Literature, Girls, Fiction, Panjabis (South Asian people), England, fiction, Fiction, general

Description: This novel is based on the author's own childhood, growing up in the '60s as part of the only coloured family living in a Wolverhampton mining village. As in her films, it is filled with warmth, good humour and eccentric characters.