first 40 days of the pandemic as a junior doctor, following the loss of her sister Kiron to breast cancer, Everything is True: a Junior Doctor’s Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022, and headed the list of the Guardian's Book Highlights of 2022. This covered the pressures of her work and its difficult impact on her family, partly by imagined conversations with her late sister. She said she found the weekly clap for the NHS to be a performative, futile gesture. She continues to work full time as an NHS doctor, specialised in Internal Medicine, alongside her writing and lecturing. Personal life Farooki cites her father as an inspiration, and has written frankly about her relationship with her father and his influence on her work in the UK national press. She has also written about her experiences of eczema, relationship counselling, and fertility treatment. Her recent novels have featured characters with Asperger's syndrome, and bipolar disorder. Before her sister, Kiron, died of cancer, she had advised Roopa to separate from her husband; advice she did not take. She currently lives in southwest France and southeast England with her Anglo-Irish husband, and four children, twin girls, a boy and a girl. She teaches creative writing, having been a lecturer on the Masters programme in Prose Fiction at Canterbury Christ Church University and an undergraduate lecturer at the University of Kent in England. She also teaches on the Masters programme at the University of Oxford, and is the ambassador for the UK relationship counselling charity, Relate. Acceptance Farooki's novels have been critically well received, and she has been compared to other British female novelists, Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith, and Monica Ali. In an interview with the Metro'' in 2010, headlined, "Nationality is Not The Issue", she said she was flattered by the comparisons, but said that a key difference was that she had made a deliberate decision not to focus on cultural clash in her novels, and to write universal stories. References Living people British writers Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom 1974 births Writers from Lahore Writers from London