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While Mouli’s parrot has often mimicked her, he has never before impersonated her late husband.

Five tales of home and migration from the Table Manners collection by Susmita Bhattacharya.

Susmita was born in Mumbai. She teaches contemporary fiction at Winchester University and also facilitates the Mayflower Young Writers workshops, a SO:Write project based in Southampton.

Her first story for radio, ‘Summer Learning’ (2015), was followed by the creative non-fiction piece, ‘My Chemo Brain’ in 2017. Her first novel, The Normal State Of Mind, was published in 2015. Her collection of stories, Table Manners, was published in 2018.

Read by Chetna Pandya

Producer: Jeremy Osborne

Made for Â鶹Éç Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk productions - first broadcast in January 2020.