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Lata, from Mumbai and newly wed, must adjust to her new life in Cardiff.

Five tales of home and migration from the Table Manners collection by Susmita Bhattacharya.

Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Mumbai. She teaches contemporary fiction at Winchester University and also facilitates the Mayflower Young Writers workshops, a SO:Write project based in Southampton. Her first story for radio, ‘Summer Learning’ (2015), was followed by the creative non-fiction piece, ‘My Chemo Brain’ in 2017. Her first novel, The Normal State Of Mind, was published in 2015. Her collection of stories, Table Manners, was published in 2018.

Written by Susmita Bhattacharya
Read by Aysha Kala
Produced by Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk Production for ±«Óãtv Radio 4 Extra, first broadcast in January 2020.