Seven years later, Khalil got married to the same woman, and they currently live in a well-to-do suburb of London along with their two children. I wasn’t attracted to her at all, and I realised at that moment that I hadn’t been attracted to any of the girls that had come over before.” My father kept making all these jokes about us getting married… and I knew he was joking, but I was trying not to cringe. “We had some family guests over,” he recalls, “and they brought along their daughter, who was around my age. It was 1984, and he was living on a council estate in West London with his parents and two sisters, who originally came from Pakistan.