Love Marriage

- Reviews -

I absolutely loved it. 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. I loved how she so cleverly interwove their experiences to create such a fabulous story. She writes human frailty so well, and her astute observations on family dynamics are superb. Exquisitely written with big heartedness, intelligence and passion. This will be a hit I have no doubt * Ruth Jones, author of NEVER GREENER * LOVE MARRIAGE has a warm intelligence and a sharp observational power, making the characters and the world of the story feel very alive * Diana Evans * 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. Every single character lives and breathes on the page. 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, Booker Prize shortlisted author of THE LIVES OF OTHERS * No one captures the modern family like Monica Ali - Love Marriage is a masterful cacophony of characters, all drawn with deep empathy and sharp insight. The novel is full of surprises and unexpected twists, with an ending that will take your breath away * Tahmima Anam * I absolutely loved LOVE MARRIAGE. It' s a story about love and family, about despair and forgiveness, about trauma and recovery, about expectation and responsibility, about friendship and community. Mostly, it' s about having the courage to lose yourself, in order to find yourself again. It' s big-hearted and tender and it' s a novel that cares about its characters so deeply that you will too * Hannah Beckerman * I loved Love Marriage, and looked forward to reading it every night. Funny, compassionate, sexy, romantic, beautifully plotted and richly peopled, it is both highly original and working within a literary tradition of novels about love and marriage. Above all it is about the way that individuals are a mystery to each other, and themselves, wounding and misunderstanding each other, yet also about how, with patience and kindness, we can change for the better * Amanda Craig * 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. Love Marriage is every bit as compelling, as charming as Brick Lane. A joyous novelist at the peak of her formidable powers writing fresh lives into our literary tradition * Daljit Nagra, author of LOOK WE HAVE COMING TO DOVER! * I tore through Love Marriage. An engrossing read. . . Such a brilliant portrayal of how we can' t help but be mortified by the ones we love, no matter how much we hate ourselves for it. Even in the characters' darkest and most desperate moments there is warmth - they' re not perfect but you root for them all the same. I enjoyed my time peeking into their lives - and was happy to see everybody exactly where they should be (for better or worse) when it came time to leave them * Justin Myers *

- Author Bio -

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. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2003 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.

- Full Details -

Status:	Indicates in stock with Supplier
ISBN-13:	9780349015491
Published:	3 Feb 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Virago Press
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Format:	Trade Paperback
Height:	234mm
Width:	153mm
Weight:	41g
Pages:	512

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