Sathnam Sanghera’s cross-generational novel about the life of a cornershop and the British Sikh family that runs it, cast a wryly comic eye over some big themes: family duty versus freedom, authenticity versus assimilation and Enoch Powell-era racism versus grassroots activism.
The cornershop that anchors them in Wolverhampton is run by the Bains family. Two sisters, Kamaljit (Kiran Landa) and Surinder (Anoushka Deshmukh), first come together to share dreams and intimacies and then head in opposing directions, into estrangement, after their father (Jaz Singh Deol) dies and their mother (Avita Jay) begins organising their arranged marriages.
