Category : Fiction
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 fishfingers and chips, not just chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not the usual Punjabi festivals - but more than anything, Meena wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang.
Written with warmth, fun and a hint of wistfulness, Anita and Me is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Sixties and of a young girl caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change.
Now a set text for EdExcel and WJEC GCSE.
