Love Marriage by Monica Ali 

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Love Marriage by Monica Ali: 1:  First impressions

Love Marriage by Monica Ali

1:  First impressions

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

Meera Syal reads Monica Ali’s latest novel,  a bighearted and hilarious story of two very different families brought together by marriage. Today: first impressions...

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

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