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 and a motorcycling rebel without a future, threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour.Īnita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath. She wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and 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 and her gang.īlonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and sassy, Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village, her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life.
Meena is nine years old and lives in the village of Tollington, 'the jewel of the Black Country'. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change.The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. Anita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath. 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 and a motorcycling rebel without a future, threaten to turn Anita’s salad days sour. Blonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and sassy, Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. She wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and 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 and her gang. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village, her daily struggle for independence is different from. Meena is nine years old and lives in the village of Tollington, ‘the jewel of the Black Country’. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach.
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