The instant Sunday Times bestseller about how we live and love today in the UK - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Brick Lane
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
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A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, RED MAGAZINE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'Absolutely terrific' JENNY COLGAN
'An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love' STYLIST
'Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic' DAILY MAIL
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TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE.
Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancee, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals.
As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means.
'A glorious tapestry of modern British family life' METRO
'A joy' NAOISE DOLAN
'I defy you to put this book down' ADAM KAY
'A surefire hit' OBSERVER
'Wildly entertaining ... a bold and generous book' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Big-hearted, wry and tender' HARPER'S BAZAAR'As engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane' SUNDAY TIMES 'Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining' TASH AW, TLS
A glorious tapestry of modern British family life - Metro
An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love - Stylist
Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic - Daily Mail
A state-of-the-nation novel in the very best sense ... a terrific story delivered with a light touch - Harper s Bazaar
The beating heart of this novel is the author's uncompromising scrutiny of the messy, heart-breaking, head-wrecking, brutal beauty of family dynamics - Irish Times
Wildly entertaining ... filled with people who are not just likeable, but loveable - Financial Times
Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining ... brims with extremely funny moments of excruciating social comedy - Times Literary Supplement
Bold, compassionate, big-hearted, pitch-perfectly written, and utterly unputdownable - Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize shortlisted author of THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Monica Ali is a bestselling writer whose work has been translated into 26 languages. She is the author of five books: Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, Untold Story and Love Marriage. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in 2003 she was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has been nominated for, amongst others, the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and in the U.S. has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in London.
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