Awards
Costa Biography Award
2009 Shortlist
If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton by Sathnam Sanghera
Judges: "Quietly witty, engrossing and tragicomic - this insight into parallel culture in Britain today is the poignant story of an exceptional family that everyone should read."
When Sathnam Sanghera was twenty-four years old he made a discovery about his family that would darken but also illuminate his life. The discovery would set the author on a journey into his family's past: from his father's harsh life in rural Punjab, to his parent's early years in England; from his mother's extraordinary resilience as she brought up a family in a foreign land, to the author's happy memories of his childhood. This discovery would also finally force Sanghera's own secret life into the glaring spotlight which he had, for fear of family rejection, kept hidden from his beloved mother in the Midlands.
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