AsianImage.co.uk – 4th June, 2015

Stars of the stage and screen turned out at the launch of Meera Syal’s third book, The House of Hidden Mothers. Amongst the guests were Syal’s husband and longtime collaborator Sanjeev Bhaskar, actors Richard E Grant, Maureen Lipman, Adrian Lester, Kabir Bedi and Nitin Ganatra, author Anthony Horowitz, the High Commissioner of India His Excellency Ranjan Mathai, comedians Jo Brand and Lenny Henry as well as Melvyn Bragg, Matthew Wright, Anita Rani, Nikki Bedi and Twiggy and Leigh Lawson.

The House of Hidden Mothers is Syal’s first book in sixteen years since the critically acclaimed ‘Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee’. Never one to shy away from difficult topics, The House of Hidden Mothers tackles the issues of late parenthood and surrogacy two subjects rarely discussed, although extremely prevalent in the both the British and the British Asian community.