The story of nine-year-old Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands’ mining village of Tollington. The novel provides a vision of British childhood in the 1960s, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of enormous change.

Winner of Betty Trask Awards 1996. Shortlisted for Betty Trask Award 1996 and Guardian Fiction Prize 1996.