Remember, Mr Sharma

<p><b><h2>Featuring on BBC2''s Between the Covers TV Book Club presented by Sara Cox</h2><br><br></b><b>''Thoroughly accomplished, beautifully written''</b><br><b>Adam Kay, BBC ''Between the Covers''</b><br><br><br><b>''A magical tale of a troubled family''</b><br><i><b>Daily Telegraph</b></i><br><br>Delhi, 1997: It is India''s fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year-old Adi has a bigger problem: his Ma has gone missing - again. Left with an ailing grandmother, a raging father and no answers, he finds an unlikely ally: a talking vulture who reveals itself to be a bureaucrat from the ''Department of Historical Adjustment''. The Department holds Adi''s family files, which will take him on a journey through time and memory, through fifty years of India''s history, uncovering the darkest secrets of his Ma''s past. But first, he must unlock them by facing his greatest fears.<br><br>As bright and hopeful as it is devastating, <i>Remember, Mr Sharma</i> explores the ways in which we view the past, its inescapable hold over us and the stories we tell to set ourselves free.</p>