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Roy’s first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 1997, and so to say her next book was hotly anticipated is an understatement. While there are 400 pages to get through, the exquisite storytelling and dynamic layering help you to keep hold of the threads until the satisfying end. The book is about a shattered heart, says Roy. ‘Almost nobody in it has a family and, even if they do, they live on the edge of it. There’s a heart, but it’s a shattered heart – a mended heart, but it’s not from within a little family unit. They create that by bringing their shards.’
