![]() ![]() Jay moves from her private school to a comprehensive and works part time in the shop: her mother has two jobs and studies part-time to train as a teacher, which she hopes will be their way out of their situation. Jay and her mother move to a tiny flat above a grocer's. The story demonstrates very clearly how thin is the barrier between relative wealth and poverty. ![]() But then her father wraps his car round a tree, and they discover after his death that his business has failed and he has lost everything. Up until she is eleven, she has a comfortable, happy life: her father,who has wholeheartedly embraced English life, has a successful business, and she goes to a private school. It tells the story of Jay, a fifteen year old girl born in England but from an Indian family. ![]()
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