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: Yasmin prepares herself for the long-feared meeting between her traditional Muslim parents and her fiancé's firebrand feminist mother, Harriet.

Author: Monica Ali is the author of several novels including Brick Lane, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reader: Meera Syal is an acclaimed comedian, writer, playwright, and actress, who rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me. She has a CBE for services to drama and literature.
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett Show less