Wembley Stadium reminds me so much of home and because I think for so long I lived you know outside of London and I would drive home every weekend. The moment why I would feel this rush of God I'm home was when I would see the Wembley arc as I was turning that corner in the A406. For me it just means a cup of chai, peppermint tea with my mum it means like seeing all my loved ones no matter where I've lived it's always signified home.
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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