It is an exploration of multicultural British modernity, of love, sex, class, politics, faith and family. Publishers fought to buy Love Marriage and the BBC is turning it into a drama. The stage, then, is set for comedic culture clashes, generational tensions, embarrassment, misunderstanding, conflict and, we trust, resolution. He has also spotted their mother reading one of Harriet’s books over the kitchen bin, before hurling it in. Yasmin’s younger brother Arif, an unemployed sociology graduate, is delighted to have found this image online. Harriet is famous for a photograph taken in the 1990s in which she posed naked, glaring defiantly at the camera. It’s debatable whether the Ghoramis feel quite as enthusiastic. Harriet is, in fact, thrilled at the prospect of her new culturally diverse family ties. The elegant Harriet, who spends her life writing essays on liberal guilt while throwing lavish parties for the literati, will graciously “hide her amusement”. Yasmin knows her parents will insist on driving from south London unfashionably early, clutching carrier bags stuffed with Tupperware. Although Harriet always uses caterers, Yasmin’s mother, Anisah, an eccentrically dressed homemaker with “a talent for being herself”, has spent 10 hours cooking (“shukto, alu dom, dal pakori, kachori …”). As the book opens, Yasmin is nervously anticipating an introductory family dinner at her future mother-in-law’s huge Primrose Hill home.
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