Love Marriage - Monica Ali
Set in London in the wake of the Brexit vote, ‘Love Marriage’ centres on Yasmin, a trainee doctor who is the daughter of Bengali immigrants. She’s about to marry her colleague, Joe, but is shocked when a nurse on her ward lifts the lid on Joe’s double life. What’s more an even more seismic upset follows the revelation that her parents’ cross-class marriage was a murkier affair than let on by the family lore of an unarranged love match. We follow as Yasmin’s self-image starts to unravel. A page-turning tale of premarital tension, Ali’s ‘Love Marriage’ is at once a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another.
(Paperback)
Set in London in the wake of the Brexit vote, ‘Love Marriage’ centres on Yasmin, a trainee doctor who is the daughter of Bengali immigrants. She’s about to marry her colleague, Joe, but is shocked when a nurse on her ward lifts the lid on Joe’s double life. What’s more an even more seismic upset follows the revelation that her parents’ cross-class marriage was a murkier affair than let on by the family lore of an unarranged love match. We follow as Yasmin’s self-image starts to unravel. A page-turning tale of premarital tension, Ali’s ‘Love Marriage’ is at once a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another.
(Paperback)
Set in London in the wake of the Brexit vote, ‘Love Marriage’ centres on Yasmin, a trainee doctor who is the daughter of Bengali immigrants. She’s about to marry her colleague, Joe, but is shocked when a nurse on her ward lifts the lid on Joe’s double life. What’s more an even more seismic upset follows the revelation that her parents’ cross-class marriage was a murkier affair than let on by the family lore of an unarranged love match. We follow as Yasmin’s self-image starts to unravel. A page-turning tale of premarital tension, Ali’s ‘Love Marriage’ is at once a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another.
(Paperback)