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Monica Ali is a bestselling writer whose work has been translated into 26 languages. She is the author of five books: Brick Lane , Alentejo Blue , In the Kitchen , Untold Story and Love Marriage .
Monica Ali is a bestselling novelist. Her debut novel, Brick Lane, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Love Marriage was published by Virago in February 2022, and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
Monica Ali is a bestselling novelist. She is the author of five books: Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, Untold Story and Love Marriage.
'Love Marriage is bold, compassionate, big-hearted, pitch-perfectly written, and utterly unputdownable. Every single character lives and breathes on the page.
The power of Ali’s book is the way it charts its heroine’s slow accumulation of English, her gathering confidence as a mother and a wife, and the undulations of her marriage to a man whom she eventually learns to respect and perhaps even to love…
‘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 ...
Monica Ali answers questions about her bestselling debut novel, Brick Lane, and her new novel, Love Marriage.
Monica Ali is represented by Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown. She is the author of five books, including her bestselling debut, Brick Lane. Monica Ali's new novel is Love Marriage.
‘The kitchen of the title is the Imperial Hotel in central London and Ali’s dazzling accounts of its manic goings-on make Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential seem as genteel as Fanny Cradock.’
‘A highly original and multi-faceted work in which Ali not only lives up to her early promise but glides past it with ease…A remarkable and enviable achievement.’ Irish Times ‘An elegiac , comic , heart-tuggingly observant work.
