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On the eve of taking her 11-plus, the school exam seems to be the least of Meena's worries..... 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... Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal concludes her first novel. Abridged by Doreen Estall Producer: Di Speirs First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in 1996.
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