In February 2020, Bradford author Sairish Hussain’s debut novel The Family Tree was published. An affecting, engaging multi-generational story about a British Muslim family living in the North of England, it was full of insight, warmth and humour and rightly received much acclaim from critics and readers alike.
A graduate of Huddersfield University, where she studied English Language and Literature followed by an MA in Creative Writing, Hussain completed The Family Tree for her PhD. It quickly attracted a lot of attention and was shortlisted for several awards including the prestigious Portico Prize and the Costa First Novel Award. Hussain has now followed it up with her second novel Hidden Fires, which was published in January.
” In August 1947 when British India, as it was then known, was arbitrarily divided along religious lines to create the two independent states of India and Pakistan, it resulted in the displacement of around 12 million people and triggered widespread violence – the death toll is estimated at between 1 and 2 million.
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