Ruper feruki was born in laho in pakistan, her parents came from pagestan. The family myth goes that the reason they didn't go to fret paris is that my dad had too many there and his mother wasn't having it. She became a british citizen when she was 16 years old but still wonders at won point you really get to belong. ruper: "You ncan never quite lose that sense, however much, you know, if you've been educated"
Roopa Farooki is a doctor, author and creative-writing lecturer, whose new book, Everything Is True, tells the story of her first 40 days treating patients during the pandemic in the UK. She speaks with paediatrician and broadcaster Dr Guddi Singh about the reality of working in medicine during a global health crisis and the challenges of capturing the full scope of that experience in words on the page.
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