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In the year Twix and Smash were invented and Englebert Humperdinck was top of the charts, Amber was born into the chaotic Hussein family household in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. One of seven children, she grows up spirited and mischievous, not prepared to be the dutiful Muslim daughter her parents demand of her. Never out of trouble, she reads the Koran lying down, recites lewd Northern rhymes, rips up the neighbour's garden and keeps a goat for a pet. Her dad has a ferocious temper and a glad eye for the local floozies and her mum is a seething mass of resentments. When her brother's new wife - all shimmering salwaar kameez and hoity-toity manners - moves into Hussein HQ and gets Mrs Hussein's blessing to use Amber as a servant, the scene is set for a cat fight. Against a backdrop of casual 1970s racism, tough schools and a colourful working class neighbourhood, Amber mounts her one-girl campaign to be an individual. Throughout it all her little sister Egg is her best friend, but when she gets a boyfriend and their father finds out, all hell breaks loose and, once again, Amber is the one to get the blame.
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