Monica Ali – In the Kitchen Feisty and tough, is how Monica Ali characterises herself. She is a novelist who creates controversy because she has the audacity to be both Asian and a woman who puts the spotlight on racism and inequality in modern Britain. She was born in Dhaka, Pakistan in 1967, to a white British mother and Pakistani father. When Monica was three they moved to Bolton, Lancashire.    Insomnia made her a writer.  When her son was born, he was a bad sleeper, so she worked at night.  Her children are now 8 and 10 but she still works in an obsessive way. She describes her early life as…