1. Characters: Meena, Anita, Nanima

Available for over a year

Writer Hollie McNish and poet Nafeesa Hamid examine the main characters in Anita and Me, Meera Syal’s coming-of-age novel. They’ll be helping you to prepare for your GCSE English literature exam where you’ll need to understand and write about the key themes of the book. They discuss who’s who in the fictional village of Tollington, where the story is set, and outline some of the main moments in the text. They also give you some key quotes to help you write about the key figures, their role in the story and their relationship to each other. Suitable for: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR