Bitter Sweets

by Roopa Farooki

Wealthy Bengali Ricky Karim is shocked to discover on his wedding night that his bride is not an educated, sonnet-reading soul mate but an illiterate shopkeeper's 13-year-old daughter. The way is paved for a future of double lives and deceptions that filter down to their daughter Shona decades later in south London.

Publisher: Macmillan

Roopa Farooki

Roopa Farooki was born in Lahore, Pakistan and brought up in London. She graduated from New College, Oxford and worked in advertising before writing fiction. Bitter Sweets, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers. She is also the author of Corner Shop and lives in south-east England and south-west France with her husband and two sons.