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Summary:It's 1974. Archie Jones is one of life's great losers. Even his attempt to kill himself is foiled by a passing butcher.
The return of his old war comrade,Samad Iqbal,brings back a secret Archie has been trying to forget,and Samad's wedding to a feisty girl half his age makes lonely Archie feel even worse.
Convinced that he 'picked up the wrong life in the cloakroom of existence',Archie is not expecting a sudden diversion to a funkier place. But on New Year's Eve,a chance encounter at a wild party changes everything.
Description:An epic comedy,adapted by Simon Burke from the award-winning debut novel by Zadie Smith. The lives of three families are woven together across three decades in multi-cultural Britain.