I lived in Dolly's Hill for many years that part of Northwest London. We used to go to Harrow quite a lot for him some very good as you will well know Sri Lankan vegetarian restaurants there. Norfolk has had so much time in literature it's mentioned in so many novels whether it's books set there or people going on long weekends there. Wembley and Harrow and those parts of London haven't seen there are either a fantasize because of the school in Harrow but real Harrow Wembley. Driving on the A406 Freightway like all those roads that I know so well I've never seen in books and that's why I wanted to bring them into this novel too
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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