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Episode 2

Keighley, 1966. Nisha recruits Mukesh for the Diwali show. Novel about family, fate and fortune by Nikesh Shukla.

New novel by Nikesh Shukla, the Editor of The Good Immigrant anthology of essays and author of the novels Meatspace and Coconut Unlimited.

The One Who Wrote Destiny tells the story of three generations of the same family, riven by feuds and falling-outs, united by fates and fortunes. Mukesh moves from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley in 1966. Decades later, his daughter Neha is dying from lung cancer, a genetic gift from her mother and an invocation to forge a better relationship with her brother and her widowed father before it's too late. Neha's brother Rakesh is a comedian but his career is flat-lining and he's grieving his mother and sister. Ba has never looked after her two young grandchildren before. After the death of her daughter, they come to stay with her and she has to work out how to bond with two children who are used England, not to the rhythms of Kenya...

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

15 minutes

Last on

Tue 17 Apr 2018 22:45

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Bhasker Patel
Reader Chetna Pandya
Reader Maya Sondhi
Reader Indira Varma
Reader Taru Devani
Author Nikesh Shukla
Abridger Sara Davies
Producer Mair Bosworth

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  • Tue 17 Apr 2018 22:45

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