In 2003, that debut novel so masterfully chronicled Britain’s multicultural landscape that it launched Ali into the literary stratosphere with phenomenal critical acclaim and international success. A joyous novelist at the peak of her formidable powers writing fresh lives into our literary tradition.Monica Ali, the English-Bangladeshi author of the Booker shortlisted Brick Lane, has returned to publishing after a 10-year hiatus. Love Marriage is every bit as compelling, as charming as Brick Lane. 'Through the construct of a marriage, Monica Ali imagines complex modern lives tip-toeing around and defying each other's sensitivities in a warm, affectionate and hilarious novel.
Make time for all of them for they are going to take up residence in your mind and soul for a long, long time.' - Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others Every single character lives and breathes on the page. 'A novel with the richness, and the throng and press and hum of life itself, LOVE MARRIAGE is bold, compassionate, big-hearted, pitch-perfectly written, and utterly unputdownable. This will be a hit I have no doubt.' - Ruth Jones, author of Never Greener Exquisitely written with big heartedness, intelligence and passion. She writes human frailty so well, and her astute observations on family dynamics are superb. I loved how she so cleverly interwove their experiences to create such a fabulous story. It had me gripped and I was so invested in her brilliant characters with their fallibilities and secrets! I empathised with every one of them and really felt I knew them all as individuals. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780349015507 Number of pages: 512 Weight: 406 g Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 42 mm MEDIA REVIEWS What starts as a captivating social comedy develops into a heart-breaking and gripping story of two cultures, two families and two people trying to understand one another. Love Marriage is a story about who we are and how we love in today's Britain - with all the complications and contradictions of life, desire, marriage and family. 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.īut 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.Īs 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. The first new novel in a decade from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Brick Lane.
Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2023 Fiction Book of the Year
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