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 secrets, lies and betrayals.

Today: with her brother's baby on the way, and her relationship with Joe strained, Yasmin makes a reckless decision...

Author: Monica Ali
Reader: Meera Syal
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett Show less