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Title: Anita and Me
Author: Meera Syal
Narrator: Meera Syal
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Nine-year-old Meena can't wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most.
Meena wants fish fingers 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.
Blonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and 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 and a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour.
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. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the'70s, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change.
Critic Reviews:
"Tom Sawyer meets Cider with Rosie en route to India via Wolverhampton. A wonderful book - treat yourself." (Ben Elton)
"Funny, moving and packed full of wonderful surprises." (Esther Freud)
"This is a funny, sad book. It made me long to be a kid again, yet grateful I'd grown up." (Jo Brand)
"Anita and Me is full of pleasure. Syal is as skilful at rendering the saucy, ballsy backchat of the Tollington women as she is at describing Meena's 'uncles and aunties', her parents' Indian friends. The book is expertly structured and engagingly written, illuminated throughout by Meena's ironical irreverance and robustness of spirit. I can give it no higher recommendation." (Laura Tennant, Guardian)
Members Reviews:
Thoroughly enjoyed this book
Thoroughly enjoyed this book! Was true to 60s , not only in the UK but in NZ. It certainly bought back memories of my childhood in NZ
An interesting story from the perspective of an Indian girl ...
An interesting story from the perspective of an Indian girl growing up in Britain. It is amusing as well as telling.
Sweet
Many of us who have grown outside of India, may have experienced somewhat similar situations and reactions. This book must have been very personal to the person writing it, and we can smell whiffs of her childhood in some way. Overall, it was fair reading, though, at the end of it, I felt it did not affect me in any major way. Sweet but not fantastic.
Funny and Addictive Voice
Anita and Me by Meera Syal is actually one of those books where I found out it existed by seeing the film adaptation first. I am sometimes a little weary of reading books after I've already seen the film because film adaptations tend to alter somewhat from the novels themselves and I enjoyed the film thoroughly and didn't want to end up being disappointed with it once I had finished the book.
It has actually been sat on my bookshelf for about three years, never seemingly managing to get around to it; there always seemed to be books I wanted to read more.
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Title: Anita and Me
Author: Meera Syal
Narrator: Meera Syal
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Nine-year-old Meena can't wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most.
Meena wants fish fingers 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.
Blonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and 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 and a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour.
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. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the'70s, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change.
Critic Reviews:
"Tom Sawyer meets Cider with Rosie en route to India via Wolverhampton. A wonderful book - treat yourself." (Ben Elton)
"Funny, moving and packed full of wonderful surprises." (Esther Freud)
"This is a funny, sad book. It made me long to be a kid again, yet grateful I'd grown up." (Jo Brand)
"Anita and Me is full of pleasure. Syal is as skilful at rendering the saucy, ballsy backchat of the Tollington women as she is at describing Meena's 'uncles and aunties', her parents' Indian friends. The book is expertly structured and engagingly written, illuminated throughout by Meena's ironical irreverance and robustness of spirit. I can give it no higher recommendation." (Laura Tennant, Guardian)
Members Reviews:
Thoroughly enjoyed this book
Thoroughly enjoyed this book! Was true to 60s , not only in the UK but in NZ. It certainly bought back memories of my childhood in NZ
An interesting story from the perspective of an Indian girl ...
An interesting story from the perspective of an Indian girl growing up in Britain. It is amusing as well as telling.
Sweet
Many of us who have grown outside of India, may have experienced somewhat similar situations and reactions. This book must have been very personal to the person writing it, and we can smell whiffs of her childhood in some way. Overall, it was fair reading, though, at the end of it, I felt it did not affect me in any major way. Sweet but not fantastic.
Funny and Addictive Voice
Anita and Me by Meera Syal is actually one of those books where I found out it existed by seeing the film adaptation first. I am sometimes a little weary of reading books after I've already seen the film because film adaptations tend to alter somewhat from the novels themselves and I enjoyed the film thoroughly and didn't want to end up being disappointed with it once I had finished the book.
It has actually been sat on my bookshelf for about three years, never seemingly managing to get around to it; there always seemed to be books I wanted to read more.