| ||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Meera Syal
"Beautifully observed...warm and poignant...a delightful debut novel."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Ronald Wolfe, author of Writing Comedy
"Unusual and provocative...if you like a read with chuckles, this is it."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
SWARNAKUMARI WAS BENT, innocent and ungainly, over a black bag lying on the pavement outside the charity shop IndiaNeed, her posterior turned heavenward like an overturned duck scrabbling in the shallow brook that runs along the Botanic Garden overlooking Trumpington Road. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
SWARNAKUMARI WAS BENT, innocent and ungainly, over a black bag lying on the pavement outside the charity shop IndiaNeed, her posterior turned heavenward like an overturned duck scrabbling in the shallow brook that runs along the Botanic Garden overlooking Trumpington Road. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was a hilarious and heart-warming read. I have never seen anything like it. These characters will stay with you for a long time to come.They are alive far beyond the pages of the novel. They aren't just credible, they are REAL. There is a quiet wisdom about the book that makes you relfect even as you laugh...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is great fun and made me laugh out loud. An excellent and heart-warming poke at Asian prejudices.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I heard it mentioned on local radio and thought it sounded fun.The characters are likable but not a lot happens really. I also found that the author used so many descriptions of local routes and places that I got picky about this display of knowledge. For instance she referred several times to the Sixth Form College. Yet there are two free standing sixth form colleges in Cambridge with very definite identities and a local would say 'he went to Hills Rd' or 'Long Road'. But this is just me being picky. I would certainly read the author's next book but would hope for some more plot to support the excellent characterisation.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
An irritating read
In brief this book is a thoroughly disappointing waste of time and money. Author should do better.
The characters were okay, quite real in fact but not nearly enough... Read more
The characters were okay, quite real in fact but not nearly enough... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Riddler
Curry Club
Simply badly written rubbish. How this made it to the shelves I don't know. I couldn't finish it. Rambling, dull and lacking any point at all. Read more
Published 22 months ago by MrWheeliebin
Full of Chuckles
This was a laugh out loud book for me. Not a cook book at all as the title might suggest, , but one set in a charity shop in Cambridge and filled with wonderful characters. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2007 by kehs
Surprising Delight
I bought this book in error but once it had been delivered I thought that I may as well read it (I'd paid for it)and was pleased that I did. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2004
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
