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Having grown up in a corner shop in the west midlands, i hoped that sathnam sanghera s marriage material would resonate. Marriage material by sathnam sanghera overdrive rakuten. Marriage material is the story of three generations of a punjabi sikh family, set against the backdrop of their wolverhampton corner shop. A memoir of love, secrets and lies in wolverhampton, was shortlisted for the 2008 costa biography award and the 2009 penackerley prize and named 2009 mind book of the year. After his fathers death, arjan banga is forced to leave his fiancee in london and return home to wolverhampton in the.
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