Aneeta Prem MBE

Aneeta wrote But It’s Not Fair as a novel about friendship tested by absence, family pressure and unanswered questions. Vinny’s loyalty to Abby gives the story its emotional centre.

Her work with schools, families and safeguarding professionals showed that a young person at risk may speak first to a friend. That experience deepens the fiction, but does not replace character, humour or narrative tension.

By placing readers inside Vinny’s uncertainty, the novel creates the distance needed to approach a difficult subject while leaving a simple question behind: what does friendship ask us to do?