Blog tour: Baby Does A Runner

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Welcome to the blog tour for Baby Does A Runner by Anita Rani!

More about the book…

Sometimes you need to run, to find out where you really belong.

Baby Saul has had it with just about everything. She's fed up with her job and her colleagues, her love life is permanently casual, and underpinning everything is the recent grief of losing her much-loved dad. Oh, and if her mother and the aunties don't stop asking her when she's going to settle down and start having babies, Baby might just lose it.

When she finds some love letters between her grandfather and someone who is very clearly not her grandmother, Baby realises that she needs to know more. She heads to India to do some detective work on this mysterious other woman and to find out a bit more about herself along the way. What she doesn't bargain for is Sid, her guide (and unwilling driver) being annoyingly handsome with a knack for asking Baby the sort of questions that force her to look at what she really wants out of life.

More about the author…

Bradford born and bred, award-winning presenter Anita Rani is one of the most recognisable faces on British TV.

She is a lead presenter on Country­file, hosts Woman's Hour on Radio 4 every week and regularly presents on Radio 2.

Anita is well known for her work on Channel 4, Channel 5, the BBC and most recently with Netflix.

She is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR.

You can ­find her on Twitter and Instagram @itsanitarani.

My impressions…

I know Anita Rani from some her TV work - namely the BBC programmes Bollywood: The World’s Biggest Film Industry and My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 - so I had somewhat high expectations when it came to this novel, which I expected to be a light-hearted romcom. Gladly, I was correct in anticipating a novel that inspired and educated me. Also gladly, despite romance being part of the story, I found the book to be about much more that. There is history, religion and the generational pain associated to the Partition of India. Overall, it is a well-balanced novel: a great read whether you want to be entertained or wish to learn something new.

Three words to describe it. Heart-breaking. Approachable. Beautiful.

Do I like the cover? The colours are not for me but you have to admire the boldness!

Have I read any other books by the same author? Not yet but that will change!

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