Burnt Sugar Av Avni Doshi

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, the 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 fiction 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 <br/>