The incredible Sunday Times bestseller

''Essential...A complex blend of overexcited Adrian Mole-like anecdotes mixed with shocking moments of racism and insights into Muslim religious practices'' Sunday Times

''Authentic, funny and very relatable'' - Sayeeda Warsi

In 1997, Britain was leading the way to an exciting new world orderA funny, loveable and naïve 13-year-old Tez Ilyas from working class Blackburn wanted to be a doctor. By the end of 2001, the UK was at war with Afghanistan and Islamophobia had shot through the roof. 18-year-old Tez wasn''t heading for a medical degree.

In this rollercoaster of a coming-of-age memoir, comedian Tez Ilyas takes us back to the working class, insular British Asian Muslim community that shaped the man he grew up to beFull of rumbling hormones, mischief-making friends, family tragedy, racism Tez didn''t yet understand and a growing respect for his religion, his childhood is both a nostalgic celebration of everything that made growing up in the 90s so special, and a reflection on how hardship needn''t define the person you become.



At times shalwar-wetting hilarious and at others searingly sad, this is an eye-opening childhood memoir from a little-heard perspective that you''ll be thinking about long after you''ve finished the last page.

Format Häftad Omfång 416 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 2022-07-07 ISBN 9780751582192