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Join The Candid Book Club at Waterstones Piccadilly for an evening with Jyoti Patel, to discuss her novel The Things That We Lost. Deeply moving and quietly profound, Patel's debut novel traces Nik's emotional journey of revelation and understanding as his late father's facade crumbles and long-held family secrets emerge.
Jyoti Patel was born in Paris to British Indian parents and grew up in north-west London. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at the University of East Anglia and winner of the 2021 #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. Her writing has previously been published as part of WePresent’s Literally series. The Things That We Lost is her debut novel.