![]() In a way, the story is a thriller because the power balance between the two gradually shifts in the novel. She is desperate for a baby but there is also a part of her that asks: Am I just a colonial exploiter hiring a woman’s womb? Or am I going to change the life of a poor woman and give her a financial opportunity she wouldn’t get any other way? For me it was important that Mala, the surrogate, comes out just as strong and complicated as Shyama is. Some people may see your protagonist as an exploiter….Įxactly! Shyama is ridden with guilt. ![]() They are desperate for a child and the cheapest and easiest option they have is to find a surrogate from India. She has just fallen in love with a much younger Englishman called Toby. The story is about a British-Indian woman called Shyama. The third is about late motherhood, second marriages and blended families. My first book was about my childhood and my second was about motherhood. It’s related to the stage of life I am at. Your first two novels centred on women’s lives. ![]() Excerpts: Out with her third novel, British-Indian actor Meera Syal discusses comedy, stereotypes and the cost of immigration.(HT Photo) Visiting the country to promote her third book, The House of Indian Mothers, we caught up with the vivacious British-Indian actor at the Jaipur Literature Festival to talk about comedy, stereotypes and the cost of immigration. The comedian from Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars At No.42 may have been bestowed with a CBE, but Meera Syal, 54, says she is an Indian at heart. ![]()
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