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Love Marriage by Monica Ali: 4: Passion

Love Marriage by Monica Ali

4: Passion

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Meera Syal reads Ali's new novel following two families brought together by marriage.

Meera Syal reads Monica Ali’s bighearted and hilarious new novel, following two very different families brought together by marriage. Today: passion and a banishment.

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 and dark secrets.

Today: Yasmin finds passion, while tempers rise to boiling point in the Ghorami household....

Author: Monica Ali is the author of several novels including Brick Lane, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reader: Meera Syal 
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett

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Meera Syal reads Monica Ali's big-hearted and hilarious new novel - her first in a decade.

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