The things that we lost have encompassed so many of the big questions that you've asked about your own identity. I didn't write it for it to be big or for it to sell thinking it everybody even be published and I genuinely wrote it for all like this 15 or 16 year old British Godratis who just couldn't see themselves in books. The next book which I'm currently working on also follows a British Godrati family oh it's also about family secrets but this book theThings that we lost is quite it's quite dark and it's quite a sad book in many ways.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by the second winner of Stormzy's Merky Books Prize, and she was also one of the Observer's best new novelists, it's Jyoti Patel.
Jyoti joins us to discuss her debut novel, The Things That We Lost, a story of family, loss and how far we go to protect those we love.
Also discussed on the podcast is the experience of mixing British and Gujarati cultures, the privilege of studying the arts, the importance of being your authentic self, the idea of the perfect sentence, and where it is that Jyoti feels the writer's life most intensely.
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