My Daughter, My Mother (55 page)

After a few moments Meena looked across at Joanne.

‘Your daughter,’ she stated. ‘She is good girl.’

‘Yes. Yes, she is.’ It was only now that Margaret realized just how good. She was filled with a swelling sensation of pride, of joy and possibility, of life opening out.

‘Have daughter is good,’ Meena continued. ‘My daughter Sukhdeep is good girl. She teach me lot of thing.’

Margaret turned to her new friend. Across the room, Joanne saw her radiant smile. ‘Yes,’ she agreed. ‘Mine too.’

A
LSO
BY
A
NNIE
M
URRAY

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Acknowledgements

A number of people were helpful to me in my research for this book. A particularly big thank you to: Gaynor Arnold, Brian Holtham and Ruchi and Gurmit Sandhu.

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