Meena a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972 is the daughter of Indian parents who&ve come to England to give her a better life This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter & her dysfunctional family Anita is 14 blonde & beautiful; exactly what Meena thinks she wants to be ...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach The story of nine-year-old Meena growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington It's 1972 Meena is nine years old & lives in the village of Tollington the jewel of the Black Country' She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village her daily struggle for independence is different from most She wants fishfingers & chips not chapati & dhal; she wants an English Christmas not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities
- but more than anything she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter & her gang Blonde cool aloof outrageous & sassy Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life but the arrival of a baby brother teenage hormones impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school & a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour Anita & Me paints a comic poignant compassionate & colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares power cuts glam rock decimalisation & Ted Heath It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies a childhood caught between two cultures each on the brink of change
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