I have read this before, and it is good, but long and quite difficult.
The story of two families, one an Englishman married to a Caribbean origin woman and the other both (I think) from what is now Bangladesh. The two fathers meet as British soldiers in Greece at the end of the 2nd World War and meet again in London post war and become firm friends.
But it is really about their post war families, the Bangladeshi has two sons who are diametrically opposed, the English guy a daughter and it is really an exploration of culturally diverse London from the 1970’s to (when?).
Islamic extremism, the English upper middle class intelligentsia are all well covered, but it was a bit over long and complex.
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