Love Marriage

Named a Best Book of 2022 So Far by The New Yorker “Cultural clashes political satire Oedipal conflicts elegant prose—they’re all here in this romp of a book.” —Oprah Daily A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text Selection Love Marriage is a glorious moving novel from Booker Prize shortlisted Monica Ali who has “an inborn generosity that cannot be learned” The New York Times Book Review. In presentday London Yasmin Ghorami is twentysix in training to be a doctor like her Indianborn father and engaged to the charismatic upperclass Joe Sangster whose formidable mother Harriet is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So too is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near misunderstandings infidelities and longheld secrets upend both Yasmin’s relationship and that of her parents a “love marriage” according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life. A gloriously acute observer of class sexual mores and the mysteries of the human heart Monica Ali has written a “riveting” BookPage starred review social comedy and a moving revelatory story of two cultures two families and two people trying to understand one another that’s “sure to please Ali’s fans and win some new ones” Publishers Weekly.