Sandra Hunter, author of Losing Touch, on tour July 2014

After Indian Independence Arjun brings his family to London, but hopes of a better life rapidly dissipate. His wife Sunila spends all day longing for a nice tea service, his son suddenly hates anything Indian, and his daughter, well, that’s a whole other problem. As he struggles to enforce the values he grew up with, his family eagerly embraces the new. But when Arjun’s right leg suddenly fails him, his sense of imbalance is more than external. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, he is forced to question his youthful impatience and careless cruelty to his family, until he learns, ultimately, to love them despite — or because of — their flaws. In a series of tender and touching glimpses into the shared life of a married couple, Sandra Hunter creates strikingly sympathetic characters — ones that remind us of our own shortfalls, successes, hypocrisies, and humanity.

Praise for Sandra’s writing:

“In pitch-perfect prose, prize-winning author Sandra Hunter offers a fresh focus on the immigrant experience of 1970s London and of the differences that exist between first and second generations.”  —The Fritz Agency

“It’s good.  Very good.  It’s got characters who, with little real detail, become nonetheless very real through the third person narrator’s well planned insight.” — Susan Gibb, from the blog Spinning, referring to a short story by Sandra Hunter