Anita and Me by Meera Syal
The story of Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington, from award-winning screenwriter Meera Syal. This hilarious novel is a set text for GCSE WJEC and Edexcel.‘Tom Sawyer meets Cider With Rosie en route to India via WolverhamptonA 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
Meera Syal is a writer, actress, playwright, comic and novelist. She wrote the screenplays for the films Bhaji on the Beach and the multi-award-winning My Sister Wife. Anita and Me, her first novel, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Life Isn’t All Ha-Ha, Hee-Hee, was published in 1999.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780007345335 |
| ISBN 10 | 000734533X |
| Title | Anita and Me |
| Author | Meera Syal |
| Series | Collins Readers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2010-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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