Burnt Sugar - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020<BR><BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE SUSHILA DEVI AWARD 2021<BR><BR>NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2021<BR><BR>A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill, Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk and Diana Evans<BR><BR>'Beautifully written, emotionally wrenching and poignant in equal measure' The Booker Prize Judges 2020<BR><BR>'An unsettling, sinewy debut, startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence' Guardian<BR><BR>'I would be lying if I said my mother's misery has never given me pleasure.'<BR><BR>This is a tale of obsession and betrayal. This is a poisoned love story. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. <BR><BR>Tara and Antara, a woman and her angry shadow. But which one is which?<BR><BR>Sharp as a blade and compulsively readable, Burnt Sugar slowly untangles the knot of memory and rumour that binds two women together, revealing the truth that lies beneath.<BR><BR>'A work of extraordinary insight, courage and sophistication' Washington Post<BR><BR>'Arresting and fiercely intelligent, disarmingly witty and frank' Sunday Times <BR><BR>'A sly, slippery, often heartbreaking novel about the role memory plays within families' Stylist<BR><BR>'Extraordinary... Come for the effortlessly stylish writing, stay for the boiling wrath' Observer