Love Marriage - Monica Ali

Set in London in the wake of the Brexit vote, ‘Love Marriage’ centres on Yasmin, a trainee doctor who is the daughter of Bengali immigrants. She’s about to marry her colleague, Joe, but is shocked when a nurse on her ward lifts the lid on Joe’s double life. What’s more an even more seismic upset follows the revelation that her parents’ cross-class marriage was a murkier affair than let on by the family lore of an unarranged love match. We follow as Yasmin’s self-image starts to unravel. A page-turning tale of premarital tension, Ali’s ‘Love Marriage’ is at once a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another.

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