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It's 1972. Meena is nine years old, the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life in the village of Tollington, the ‘jewel of the Black Country'. She is. Her idyllic adolescence, surrounded by eccentric relatives and friends, is disrupted by the arrival of feisty Anita Rutter. At fourteen, 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.

Meera Syal is also an acclaimed actress, director and writer for television and film.