Between Dreams and Home | A Novel: A British Asian Family Novel - Softcover

Rizwan, Muhammad

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798188298173

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Some families give you a house. This one teaches you what a home really is.

At twenty-nine, Anaya has everything she planned for: a master's degree, a career she's brilliant at, and a wedding to Dev — the kind, steady man she chose for herself. What she hasn't planned for is what it means to marry not just a husband, but three generations of his family, all under one crowded North-West London roof.

A warm, funny, deeply moving novel about marriage, motherhood, ambition, and belonging — for readers of Balli Kaur Jaswal, Marian Keyes, and Monica Ali.

Inside the Mehta household, Anaya finds a world of fierce love and unspoken rules: a mother-in-law who guards her kitchen like a border she'll defend to the last spoon, a grandfather who wins her heart over a game of chess, and a home where privacy is a rumour and every feeling has an audience.

As the years turn — a promotion she has to fight for, a pregnancy that changes everything, a loss that breaks the family open, and a dream buried for thirty years and waiting to be found — Anaya must answer the question every ambitious woman eventually faces:

How do you become everything you're meant to be, without disappearing into everyone who needs you?

If you love multigenerational family sagas, heartfelt book-club fiction, and stories that make you laugh on one page and cry on the next — where the conflict is real but the ending is earned — Between Dreams and Home will feel like coming home to a family you didn't know you had.

A standalone novel with a warm, hopeful, satisfying ending. No cliffhangers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798188298173
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189