bankers and schoolgirls - are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience
and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century
proceeds to uncover new layers of yearning and pain
But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people
both great and small
The Boy with the Topknot : A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies Condition:Well Read bankers and schoolgirls - are'Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving' Observer "It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second hand, floral patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for execution." For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of