Joan Mackenzie: Moth and When You Are Mine

Moth by Melody Razak Set in 1946/1947 at the time India was getting ready for Partition. The book centres around a liberal Brahmin family who have always had a good life. The parents are academics but despite their liberal views they’re getting ready to marry off their 14-year-old daughter as Delhi is not a safe place for girls and women during all the social and political unrest at that time.They’d been looking forward to a free and independent India but Partition put paid to all that and tore the family apart much in the same way it tore the country apart. When You are Mine by Michael RobothamThe boys club in the Metropolitan Police force is alive and well, so Philomena McCarthy is on the outer from the day she joins – made worse when she arrests a man at the scene of a domestic assault only to find he’s a senior, decorated cop.The victim becomes a good friend and a constant presence in Phil’s life but something isn’t right. And it’s all complicated by the fact that Phil’s father is a gangster and her three uncles have done time inside.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.