Bali Rai

A powerful and gripping novel that sweeps the reader from modern-day Britain to the Punjab in the 1960s and back again in a ceaseless cycle of tragedy and conflict. 1950s Punjab - a secret affair goes terribly wrong and the bride commits suicide after her lover is attacked by her family. The two families part in violence and conflict. 2004 Leicester - Rani and Sukh fall in love, unaware of the terrible legacy of the past and the conflict between their two families-Can tragedy be averted or will the two young people be able to escape the cycle of violence and draw the families together for the future?

Rani And Sukh

Remmi Ahmed

IN A SQUARE of disused land to the south of the village of Moranwali, Mohinder Sandhu and Resham Bains stood by the weathered stone wall of a well, peering down into the darkness, telling each other stories as the burning sun fell in the sky like an orange disc and the late-afternoon breeze cooled their perspiring brows.

I first read this book when I was 13, not having the knowledge of Romeo and Juliet behind me. To read it now is such a breath of fresh air, and to see it as the Shakespearean retelling it is makes the experience even more thrilling. 

Rani And Sukh

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