China room/sunjeev sahota

Read the heart-stopping new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Year of the Runaways Sunjeev Sahotas writing is the stuff of miracles Bryan Washington A gorgeous, gripping read Kamila Shamsie Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband.

She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend their days hard at work in the familys china room, sequestered from contact with the men.

When Mehar develops a theory as to which of them is hers, a passion is ignited that will put more than one life at risk.

Spiralling around Mehars story is that of a young man who in 1999 travels from England to the now-deserted farm, its china room locked and barred.

In enforced flight from the traumas of his adolescence - his experiences of addiction, racism, and estrangement from the culture of his birth - he spends a summer in painful contemplation and recovery, finally gathering the strength to return home.

Im blown away by it.

I was gripped from the first page to the last Tessa Hadley Such a thrilling combination of beauty and heartbreak.

Its breathtaking Charlotte Mendelson An intense drama of classic themes - love, family, survival, and betrayal - told with passion and precision in Sahotas economical, lyrical prose Adam Foulds.