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My debut novel Kololo Hill was chosen as a 2021 Pick for Foyles, The Daily Mail, The Irish Times and Cosmopolitan.
It's partly inspired by my grandparents, who left India for East Africa in the 1940s, as well as those who were expelled from Uganda by brutal ruler Idi Amin.
Before publication, Kololo Hill won The Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Live, came second place in the First Novel Prize and York Festival of Writing Best Opening Chapter, was a finalist in the international Bath Novel Award and was longlisted for the Retreat West Novel Prize, Exeter Novel Prize and SI Leeds Literary Prize.
I was born and raised in London but spent many family holidays in East Africa. My love for travel hasn't diminished and I also once ran away to join a circus in New York, but that’s a story for another time…
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