The instant Sunday Times bestseller about how we live and love today in the UK - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Brick Lane

'An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love' Stylist

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine and a charming, handsome fiancé, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But now the moment she has been dreading has arrived: it is time for her family to meet Joe's firebrand feminist mother.

As the two families are drawn closer together, long-held secrets, lies and betrayals unravel on both sides - and Yasmin is forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means...

'Wildly entertaining ... filled with people who are not just likeable, but loveable' Financial 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' Irish Times

'A glorious tapestry of modern British family life' Metro