Marriage Material

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE</b></p><p>To Arjan Banga, returning to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his familys corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind a lethargic pace of life, insular rituals and ways of thinking. But when his mother insists on keeping the shop open, he finds himself being dragged back, forced into big decisions about his imminent marriage back in London and uncovering the history of his broken family the elopement and mixed-race marriage of his aunt Surinder, the betrayals and loyalties, loves and regrets that have played out in the shop over more than fifty years.</p><p>Taking inspiration from Arnold Bennetts classic novel<i>The Old Wives Tale</i>,<i>Marriage Material</i>tells the story of three generations of a family through the prism of a Wolverhampton corner shop itself a microcosm of the South Asian experience in the country: a symbol of independence and integration, but also of darker realities.</p><p>This is an epic tale of family, love, and politics, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, and the start of the twenty-first. Told with humour, tenderness and insight, it manages to be both a unique and urgent survey of modern Britain by one of Britains most promising young writers, and an ingenious reimagining of a classic work of fiction.</p>

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Sathnam Sanghera was born in 1976. He is an award-winning writer for<i>The Times.</i>His first book,<i>The</i><i>Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton,</i>was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Biography Award and the 2009 PEN/Ackerley Prize and named 2009 Mind Book of the Year.<i>Marriage Material</i>is his first novel, and has been shortlisted for the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature and the 2013 Costa First Novel Award.

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