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Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers: Episode 10

The Pleasure Seekers

Episode 10

Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 10

Bean's love affair with Javier reaches crisis point.

Bean's love affair with Javier has reached crisis point. But Grandmother Ba's days are numbered. Read  by Indira Varma.

Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses.   

Babo and Sian's youngest daughter, Bean, has been having an affair with Javier for two years now.  She's been waiting all that time for him to leave his wife and three children.  Then Javier is involved in a car crash, which changes everything.  Back in Anjar, Grandmother Ba's life is coming to an end but first she must be sure that Bean is safe.    

The reader is Indira Varma.  Indira appeared recently in the 6 part BBC drama Luther.  She also played  Suzie Costello in Torchwood.

Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis

Producer:  Kate McAll.

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Tishani Doshi's comic and tender novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses

Indira Varma reads from Tishani Doshi's comic and tender novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujurati background

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