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Burnt Sugar

by Avni Doshi - £8.99  Penguin Books Ltd (2021)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780241989142 | ISBN 10: 0241989140

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.
 
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.
 
This is a love story and a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery cords of memory and myth that bind two women together, and hold them apart.

(Price & availability last checked: July 2021)

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