Reeta Chakrabarti: Finding Belle

Reeta Chakrabarti will be familiar to anyone who has watched BBC news, but now she has made the leap from journalist and chief newsreader to novelist. Her sensitive, insightful debut, Finding Belle, takes us from the beaches of Mombasa to the suburbs of England. Mother-daughter relationships and weighty family secrets haunt its pages. Today, Chakrabarti joins Alisha Fernandez Miranda for a discussion of connection and forging new identities.

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Debut, Fiction

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