Love Marriage

Don't miss this heart-warming, funny and bestselling book club pick about what love really means

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Love Marriage

By: Monica Ali

Narrated by: Ayesha Dharker

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF BRICK LANE
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' I defy you to put this book down' Adam Kay

'Absolutely terrific ... genuinely touching' Jenny Colgan

'Exquisitely written with big heartedness, intelligence and passion' Ruth Jones

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine and a charming, handsome fiancé, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But now the moment she has been dreading has arrived: it is time for her family to meet Joe's firebrand feminist mother.

As the two families are drawn closer together, long-held secrets, lies and betrayals unravel on both sides - and Yasmin is forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means ...

'An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love' Stylist

'As engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane' Sunday Times

'A glorious tapestry of modern British family life' Metro

'Wildly entertaining ... a bold and generous book' Financial Times

'Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining' Tash Aw, Times Literary Supplement

'A surefire hit' Observer

'Big-hearted, wry and tender' Harper's Bazaar

'Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic' Daily Mail©2022 Monica Ali

Monica AliAyesha DharkerLittle, Brown Book Group

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Absolutely terrific . . . genuinely touching . . . every one of its many characters, no matter how small their part, is beautifully rounded out (Jenny Colgan)

Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic

Compelling, witty and warm-hearted

Ali provides an acute examination of race, class and identity in British society . . . A glorious tapestry of modern British family life

Wise, warm and utterly compelling

Worth the decade it took to arrive . . . This is a proper family saga, both deliciously old-fashioned and full of surprising reversals (Alex Preston)

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

A topically freighted tale of premarital tension told with easy-reading propulsion, Love Marriage has the air of a surefire hit

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 (David Sexton)

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

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 take . . . [A] love letter to the richness of London life (Tash Aw)

Wildly entertaining . . . Filled with people who are not just likeable, but loveable. This contract of sympathy, which flows between reader and characters, deepens and enriches the portrait of contemporary London that Ali creates with a confident Dickensian sweep (Susie Boyt)

Big-hearted, wry and tender . . . a state-of-the-nation novel in the very best sense . . . a terrific story delivered with a light touch: with dialogue that can turn a situation on a sixpence and exquisite descriptions . . . There are some extremely moving moments, and splendid cinematic scenes of high comedy

The beating heart of this novel is the author's uncompromising scrutiny of the messy, heart-breaking, head-wrecking, brutal beauty of family dynamics . . . Heroes and anti-heroes fuse to create multidimensional characters who each evoke huge sympathy

There are riches here. All the components of modern identity are laid out: race, class, gender, faith, sexuality . . . engaging, entertaining and relevant

Poignant and precise . . . a tribute to freedom and self-exploration, Ali's novel is, above all, a story about love - the bonds that it brings, and the shackles

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This was for me a fascinating insight into different lives. Beautifully crafted. I felt at last I could understand more clearly the lives, personalities and desires of people whose humanity was inclusive.