Spotlight & Giveaway: I WISH WE WEREN’T RELATED by Radhika Sanghani

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Radhika Sanghani to HJ!

Hi Radhika and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, I WISH WE WEREN’T RELATED!

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

I Wish We Weren’t Related is all about a woman Reeva, who is forced to spend two weeks with her two sisters who she isn’t speaking to – all after they find out that their dad has just died. Even though they all thought he died when they were children. The book is all about Reeva’s journey in trying to find out the family secret, find a way to spend so much time with her sisters, and somehow, find a way to heal herself…
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

‘Life isn’t an exam you need to get an A in. You can take the easy path.’

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• I was originally going to center this book around a family destination wedding – but then Covid happened and I felt like centering it around a family funeral instead.
• It didn’t actually have a title until the very, very last minute. In my head I kept thinking of it as the book about ‘three sisters and a funeral’, but I knew that wasn’t the title I wanted for it!

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

This isn’t really a love story in the traditional sense – it’s more about my heroine Reeva learning to love herself and her family!

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

I blushed a lot when writing a scene where Reeva and her boyfriend start getting physical in her dead dad’s bed…

Readers should read this book….

if they relate to the title! And also for a (hopefully) fun and entertaining story about messy families, messy relationships and messy healing.

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I’m actually working on writing a YA novel now and my next book will be a children’s book!
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

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Book Info:

After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta’s life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings.

Thirty-four-year-old Reeva thought her life couldn’t possibly get more complicated, until her semi-famous Bollywood mother calls to tell her that she’s been lying to her daughters for decades—the father they thought died thirty years ago has been alive this whole time. Only now he actually is dead. Worse? His dying wish was for Reeva and her sisters Sita and Jaya to attend his funeral prayers—which means spending a fortnight together at his house, surrounded by relatives they never knew existed.

Reeva already has more than enough going on in her life. She’s an overworked London lawyer, her hair is falling out due to stress-induced alopecia, she can’t decide if her new boyfriend, Nick, is really as wonderful as he appears to be, and her brand-new cat is playing hard to get (even for a cat). And now she has to spend two weeks with the sisters she hasn’t spoken to since Jaya stole her boyfriend and Sita took her side.

But as Reeva slowly learns more about their father and his life—with the help of his sister, aka her new, wise Satya Auntie—she starts to uncover the complicated truth of their past…and realizes she needs Jaya and Sita more than she ever could have imagined.
 
 

Meet the Author:

Radhika Sanghani is an award-winning features journalist, an influential body positivity campaigner and a 2020 BBC Writers Room graduate. Her latest novel 30 Things I Love About Myself – a warm-hearted story about a woman trying to find 30 things she loves about herself after hitting rock bottom – is out in January 2022. She has previously written two YA novels: Virgin and Not That Easy.

Radhika writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Elle, Guardian, Grazia, Glamour and Cosmopolitan; was recently featured in Italian Vogue as well BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and is a regular guest on Sky News and Good Morning Britain. She is also a TedX speaker on body positivity, a yoga teacher and runs a charity initiative with AgeUK fighting loneliness in older women.

You can find her on Instagram and Twitter on @radhikasanghani