What springs to mind when you think of London? The museums? Buckingham Palace? Oxford street shopping? The West End?

You probably didn’t think of the families of Bangladeshi immigrants based around Brick Lane…

This is a beautifully told tale of a teenage bride Nazneen, taken straight from a rural village in Bangladesh, to marry an older man she has never met and live with him in London. That might not sound that captivating but her struggles – and those of her sister left behind in Dhaka – are extremely moving.

For those confident readers among you, this is a journey into the London that you probably never imagined existed.