4: Passion
Meera Syal reads Monica Ali’s bighearted and hilarious new novel, following two very different families brought together by marriage. Today: passion and a banishment.
Meera Syal reads Monica Ali’s first new novel for a decade, a bighearted and hilarious story of two very different families brought together by marriage.
Yasmin Ghorami has a brilliant career in medicine, and is engaged to a charming junior doctor, Joe Sangster. But as their wedding approaches, and the two families are thrown together, they all find themselves confronting long-held and dark secrets.
Today: Yasmin finds passion, while tempers rise to boiling point in the Ghorami household....
Author: Monica Ali is the author of several novels including Brick Lane, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reader: Meera Syal
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett
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- Thu 19 May 2022 22:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4