How We Met

A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

You can’t choose who you fall in love with, they say.

If only it were that simple.

Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled two worlds – school and teenage crushes in one; the expectations and unwritten rules of her family’s south Asian social circle in the other. Reconciling the two was sometimes a tightrope act, but she managed it. Until it came to marriage.

Realising that marriage – arranged or otherwise – cannot be the all-consuming purpose of her life, Huma learns to start focusing on herself. And then she meets someone. Neither Pakistani nor Muslim nor brown, and therefore technically not suitable at all.

When your worlds collide, how do you measure one love against another?

ISBN: 9781783965410 | Published: 3 March 2021 | Hard cover | 213 pages
ISBN: 9781783966110 | Published: 3 August 2022 (first published 2021) | Paperback | 240 pages