I’ve always known her as professional and polished, so it’s fascinating to read about her unconventional teenagerhood, ploughing her own furrow, going to films and the theatre on her own, finding her own friends and defying her family in small ways while also going along with things for the sake of not upsetting them. So a brave book, a wise and witty book, a book that confronts the shame Rani feels telling some of it and tells it anyway, that follows an actual journey she seems to have made in writing it.

With themes around partition, grief, fitting in, glass ceilings, toxic work environments and so much more, I found this a compelling read from start to finish. As Baby learns more about the history of India, and the horror of Partition in 1947, she feels as though a previously stunted part of her has been given room to grow. Anyway, it wasn't really a romance, it didn't really go into any depth about Partition (maybe if she ditched the romance and made it all about tracing what happened to Baby's grandfather's first wife and two children through Partition), it was a little bit Eat, Pray, Love in the way Baby 'found herself' travelling around a foreign country where she barely spoke the language, just because her grandparents and mother were born there. It might not be my religion but I appreciate parts of it and despite being so busy there is this calm to the temple and the pool that surrounds it! How did she manage to become the powerhouse she is, whilst battling against being too white inside her home, too brown outside of it?Never mind how unrealistic it felt that a total stranger should devote his time to her journey, I was disappointed by the knight in shining armour trope. And the more I learn about Partition the more shocking its impacts on families becomes, something I admit to being somewhat ignorant about until relatively recently. I absolutely loved listening to the author narrate her own book, she did it incredibly well and it really brought a new dimension to the listen. Even the exhaustive lists of food at every meal felt like it was being rammed down the reader's throat.

When she locates a bunch of letters addressed to her Grandad but not from his wife, her Dadima, she makes the decision that she needs to visit India to discover more of her ancestry.

The story of a girl who never fit in and the woman she became - an incredible first memoir from Anita Rani. Trying to navigate her Indian world at home and the British world outside her front door, Anita Rani was a girl who didn't ­fit in anywhere.