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6. Revelations

Meena visits a fortune teller who foretells things about her relationship with Anita. Meera Syal reads her own novel.

Meena visits a fortune teller who foretells things about her relationship with Anita.

12-year-old Meena Kumar is an Asian girl living a fairly uneventful life in the Black Country village of Tollington near Wolverhampton in the 1970s.

She's surrounded by her loving, if slightly eccentric, Punjabi family.

But then one day she met Anita Rutter.....

Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal continues her first novel.

Abridged by Doreen Estall.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.

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