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During the long summer break from school, Meena is desperate to fit in with the other children. 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..... Meera Syal reads her first novel abridged by Doreen Estall. Producer: Di Speirs First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.
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