Burnt Sugar

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Burnt Sugar
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020: A searing, compulsively readable story of mothers and daughters, memory and madness, love and betrayal’Arresting and fiercely intelligent, disarmingly witty and frank’ Sunday Times ‘Precisely written, resolutely unsentimental… A compelling book, beautifully written and with startling imagery – emotionally wrenching and poignant in equal measure’ The Booker Prize Judges 2020In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman – all with her young child in tow.