RAZ COOK

At age 28, I fell in love. He was 39, and Scottish. It was overwhelming for me. What if I had fallen in love with the wrong person? What would happen if my children didn’t like him? What would happen if he proved to be like my ex-husband? Once, we were in a bus together and a young, drunk man shouted at him, “Paki lover!”

I was born in Northampton, England in 1976, into a Pakistani family. My father worked in a factory as a mechanic. When I was age 8, my father moved our family to Glasgow, Scotland, where he ran a grocery