Burnt sugar

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021

WINNER OF THE SUSHILA DEVI AWARD 2021

A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters; obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill; Deborah Levy; Rachel Cusk and Diana Evans

'Beautifully written; emotionally wrenching and poignant in equal measure' The Booker Prize Judges 2020

'An unsettling; sinewy debut; startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence' Guardian

'I would be lying if I said my mother's misery has never given me pleasure.'

This is a tale of obsession and betrayal. This is a poisoned love story. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter.

Tara and Antara; the woman and her angry shadow. But which one is which?

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.