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LOVE MARRIAGE CHOSEN FOR BBC TELEVISION’S BOOKCLUB PROGRAMME
‘Between the Covers’ is returning in May for a fourth season, hosted by Sara Cox.
LOVE MARRIAGE IS AN AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK
It has also been selected to feature in Amazon’s Books to Love campaign. And advertised on a billboard in Leicester Square!
LOVE MARRIAGE TV ADAPTATION
After a hotly-contested auction, production company New Pictures have acquired the television rights to Love Marriage. It is currently in development with the BBC, and Monica is adapting her novel for the screen.
MONICA’S INTERVIEW FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES
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MONICA’S INTERVIEW FOR THE OBSERVER
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FEATURE SPREAD IN HARPER’S BAZAAR
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READ REVIEWS OF LOVE MARRIAGE
The Financial Times
‘Filled with people who are not just likeable, but loveable. This contract of sympathy, which flows between reader and characters, deepens and enriches the portrait of contemporary London that Ali creates with a confident Dickensian sweep.’
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The Times Literary Supplement
‘Monica Ali's rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining novel...brim[s] with extremely funny moments of excruciating social comedy ... For all its precise comic timing and consummate plotting, the novel's real strength lies in its depiction of complex social encounters, leaving the reader to decide which side, if any, to take ... [A] love letter to the richness of London life.’
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The Sunday Times
‘Love Marriage is enormously satisfying in its inventions and observations, and its exploration of cultural diversity in Britain. At once touching and satirical ... as engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane’
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MORE REVIEWS OF LOVE MARRIAGE
The Spectator
‘Absolutely terrific ... genuinely touching ... every one of its many characters, no matter how small their part, is beautifully rounded out’
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The Oldie
‘Exuberant, entertaining…at the book’s close is an impressive example of a revelation that makes sense of what has gone before rather than invalidating the reader’s experience.’
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The Irish Times
‘The beating heart of this novel is the author’s uncompromising scrutiny of the messy, heart-breaking, head-wrecking, brutal beauty of family dynamics…Heroes and anti-heroes fuse to create multidimensional characters who each evoke huge sympathy’
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The Times
‘The work of a mature feminist writer ... Is love enough? Yasmin and her family work together to answer this question, becoming dear friends to the reader along the way'
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Daily Mail
'Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic'
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Prospect Magazine
‘Compulsive, tightly plotted ... Love Marriage reveals a master storyteller playing to her strengths: a satirical eye that deftly navigates the fine line between humour and pathos; a wicked ear for dialogue; and a flair for conjuring illicit passion’
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The Guardian
‘There are riches here. All the components of modern identity are laid out: race, class, gender, faith, sexuality ... engaging, entertaining and relevant’
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