Love Marriage (don't Miss This Heart-warming, Funny And Bestselling Book Club Pick About What Love Really Means)

By (author) Ali, Monica
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The instant Sunday Times bestseller about how we live and love today in the UK - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Brick Lane
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME, READ BY MEERA SYAL
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 fiancée, 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

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Absolutely terrific . . . genuinely touching . . . every one of its many characters, no matter how small their part, is beautifully rounded out
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Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic
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Compelling, witty and warm-hearted
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Ali provides an acute examination of race, class and identity in British society . . . A glorious tapestry of modern British family life
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Wise, warm and utterly compelling
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Worth the decade it took to arrive . . . This is a proper family saga, both deliciously old-fashioned and full of surprising reversals
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Every bit as compelling as her debut Brick Lane . . . Ali perfectly captures the delicate push-pull with families in this warm and intelligent family drama
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A topically freighted tale of premarital tension told with easy-reading propulsion, Love Marriage has the air of a surefire hit
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Love Marriage is enormously satisfying in its inventions and observations, and its exploration of cultural diversity in Britain. At once touching and satirical . . . as engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane
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Nuance is one of Ali''s greatest skills; she can lay out a character''s flaws, self-delusions and inconsistencies and then make you love them anyway
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Monica Ali''s rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining novel . . . brim[s] with extremely funny moments of excruciating social comedy . . . For all its precise comic timing and consummate plotting, the novel''s real strength lies in its depiction of complex social encounters, leaving the reader to decide which side, if any, to