Love Marriage

Middle class British-Indian-Muslim junior-doctor Yasmin Ghorami (with conservative parents and a college drop-out brother) is engaged to doctor Joe Sangster, sole child of an outwardly loving, but intrusive, feminist icon and intellectual 'Harry' Harriet. As the two families get closer together long......more

Monica Ali’s novelistic career of course got off to a spectacular start in 2003 with the Booker shortlisted bestseller “Brick Lane” (where as Bookie’s favourite it was somehow beaten by perhaps the worst Booker winner of all time in “Vernon God Little). And famously she made the influential once-a-d......more