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Boy With The Topknot
Its 1979 Im three years old and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand floral-patterned settee and lean forward like Im presenting myself for execution. For Sathnam Sanghera growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes Dallas on TV and if he was lucky the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot. And then there was his family whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until at the age of twenty-four Sathnam made a discovery that changed
everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage and a glorious sense of humour he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past - from his fathers harsh life in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist Office - trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets. This book is published in hardback as If You Dont Know Me by Now"."
everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage and a glorious sense of humour he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past - from his fathers harsh life in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist Office - trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets. This book is published in hardback as If You Dont Know Me by Now"."
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