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Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize
Winner of the Betty Trask Prize
Winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award
Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Award
Shortlisted for the Hindu Best Fiction Award
Shortlsted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
‘How true to life it seems – the background of disconsolate rains and chattering mynah birds entirely Bombay, the preoccupations universal ... a generous book where absolutes are neither sought nor found.’ Guardian
'Joseph writes beautifully about quietness and stillness...she evokes the physical world that her characters inhabit exactly, without ever resorting to the sort of touristic colour that mars some English language Indian novels...this is a quiet, restrained novel but a great deal is going on beneath the surface' Sunday Times
‘Both a coming-of-age novel and a portrait of a long marriage, Anjali Joseph’s promising debut novel is a bittersweet, charming and likable book...Joseph’s good-humoured and elegant prose, her appealing, complex characters and a beautifully realised Mumbai setting make for a bewitching read.’ Irish Times
'Joseph contrasts the inner and outer lives of her characters, and the uneasy friction between new and old cultures, with all the wit and delicacy of a latter-day Mrs Gaskell' The Times
'Anjali Joseph's debut novel is replete with evocative images of Bombay...but the book's greatest strength lies in its delicate portrayal of a young man's desperation for intimate connection, and a couple's acceptance of a marriage that has failed' Financial Times
‘An elegantly realised portrait of unrequited love, frustrated aspirations and the unspoken compromises of marriage and family. Joseph neatly weaves in elements of the rapid social change occurring in the ever-expanding city but her principal concern is the more complex process of personal change and development and its bittersweet effects: the nerves, hang-ups and pains of youth and the regrets, pleasures and fulfilment of old age’ Observer
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