3. Friendship

Available for over a year

Writer Hollie McNish sits down with poet Nafeesa Hamid to talk about the theme of friendship in Meera Syal’s coming-of-age novel Anita and Me. They’ll be helping you to prepare for your GCSE English literature exam where you’ll need to understand and write about the key themes. The book is about the relationship between Meena Kumar and Anita Rutter two very different girls, with two very different upbringings. They discuss what brings these two girls together, the nature of their friendship and the kind of relationships they share with other characters in the novel. Suitable for: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR