"I’m a girl and northern and brown, didn’t you know? A triple threat!”
Three things which I, and probably most people, view with complete indifference, but which Anita seems to be daring us to take issue with in her autobiography. This doesn’t bode well - please don’t judge me, Anita, just get on with telling your story.
I’ve always quite liked (or at least, not entirely hated) Anita Rani as an amiable and chirpy Northern presenter on this and that, but it’s unsurprising that Anita’s book treads very familiar paths. Not fitting in as a child, check; coming to terms with her race, check; things she wished she could tell her younger self, check. All the tried and tested elements of a 21st Century biography are present then, but, ultimately, she just isn’t that interesting. The sections on her television career pass the time but offer no major revelations and are very much of the “Asian woman struggling to succeed in a white male-centric world.” All very modern and boring. The glowing quotes from “celebrity” readers call this book inspirational; but one man’s “inspirational” is another man’s “banal".
This a very safe, Guardian Books-friendly tome with absolutely nothing out of the ordinary within its pages. If you like Anita Rani then you’ll probably like her book as it contains nothing that will put you off her - it’s just that nice Anita Rani “off the telly” talking about herself.
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