Sathnam Sanghera is a British journalist and author of The Boy With The Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton. Published by Penguin, shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Biography Award, the 2009 PEN/Ackerley Prize and named 2009 Mind Book of the Year.

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Book discussion on BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read

“As witty as David Lodge… as moving as Angela’s Ashes… one of the most important books written in the last ten years. It’s going to be part of the canon of how Britain sees itself.”
Francis Gilbert, A Good Read, BBC Radio 4, November 2009

“I absolutely loved it. Heartbreaking and wonderful. He writes beautifully.”
Maggie O’Farrell, author of After You’d Gone

“Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving.”
The Observer

“Tragic, funny and disturbing… will challenge you, and may even change you. In other words, it’s literature.”
The Independent

“Sensitive… tenacious… funny and revealing… warm, witty, neurotic, self-deprecating, wordplay-loving…”
The Sunday Times

“Gripping… elegant… there is no shred of misery or self-pity in this story, rather an endearing and intelligent humour which provokes honest laughter and absolute respect.”
The Daily Mail

“A rigorous and thoroughly intelligent rebooting of the misery memoir that recalls Dave Eggers’ ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’ and deserves to do as well.”
Time Out

“The mother of all memoirs… phenomenal… brave, honest and frequently hilarious… Read it.”
Asiana