{"id":4987,"date":"2013-12-15T23:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2013-12-15T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:14:44","slug":"marriage-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Marriage-Material-Sathnam-Sanghera\/dp\/0434021903\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/marriage-material-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"marriage-material\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/marriage-material-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/marriage-material-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/marriage-material.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sathnam Sanghera is the same age as I am, he&#8217;s Indian and grew up in the same part of Wolverhampton as I did.  He went to the Boys Grammar, which means he had a very similar education to mine.  Basically he could be me.  There is so much I have identified with, both in his first book (The Boy With the Top Knot) and this, his first novel.  It&#8217;s full of so many insights too.  I especially like those from the point of view of the first generation of Indians to be born in England.  I wish that I had realised I wasn&#8217;t the only one who had those feelings as a young adult.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the characters are a little cartoonish &#8211; Ranjit being a prime example &#8211; but this is a good tale and very well told.  I&#8217;d recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sathnam Sanghera is the same age as I am, he&#8217;s Indian and grew up in the same part of Wolverhampton as I did. He went to the Boys Grammar, which means he had a very similar education to mine. Basically he could be me. There is so much I have identified with, both in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}