Love Marriage

Absolutely terrific . . . genuinely touching . . . every one of its many characters, no matter how small their part, is beautifully rounded out -- Jenny Colgan * Spectator * Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic * Daily Mail * Compelling, witty and warm-hearted * Sunday Express * Ali provides an acute examination of race, class and identity in British society . . . A glorious tapestry of modern British family life * Metro * Wise, warm and utterly compelling * Red * Worth the decade it took to arrive . . . This is a proper family saga, both deliciously old-fashioned and full of surprising reversals -- Alex Preston * Observer * 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 * Good Housekeeping * A topically freighted tale of premarital tension told with easy-reading propulsion, Love Marriage has the air of a surefire hit * Observer * 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 * Sunday Times * 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 * The Times * 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 * Times Literary Supplement * 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 * Financial Times * 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 * Harpers Bazaar * 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 * Irish Times * There are riches here. All the components of modern identity are laid out: race, class, gender, faith, sexuality . . . engaging, entertaining and relevant * Guardian * 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 * New Statesman * A warm and welcoming book, styled in witty, graceful prose . . . a novel of immense brightness * Big Issue * Compulsive, tightly plotted . . . Love Marriage reveals a master storyteller playing to her strengths: a satirical eye that deftly navigates the fine line between humour and pathos; a wicked ear for dialogue; and a flair for conjuring illicit passion * Prospect * This is such a gloriously vibrant and tender novel packed with wit, intelligence and wisdom. It has everything - clashing cultures, family rifts, suppressed addictions, desire, passion. Her two junior doctor protagonists are superbly drawn - flawed, courageous, flailing, human. Just brilliant -- Rachel Clarke 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 inte

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. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in 2003 she 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.