Lead Review

• Book: Marriage Material
• Location: Wolverhampton
• Author: Sathnam Sanghera

“Having grown up in a corner shop in the West Midlands, I hoped that Sathnam Sanghera’s Marriage Material would resonate. I was expecting acerbic wit, unsentimental tenderness and a Black Country setting – and it lived up to my stupid expectations. I really wanted to like it and I loved it – which never seems to happen. I usually damn things with high hopes. It was a lot of things I expected – funny and tender and scathing – but it’s insanely gripping as well. So much of the newsagent detailing was completely spot on – there was plenty of my Dad in the character of Tanvir, plenty of all of my family in there really. A great achievement.” (Catherine O’Flynn, author of What Was Lost)

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