SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021WINNER OF THE SUSHILA DEVI AWARD 2021NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2021A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters obsession and betrayal for fans of Jenny Offill Deborah Levy Rachel Cusk and Diana EvansBeautifully written emotionally wrenching and poignant in equal measure The Booker Prize Judges 2020An unsettling sinewy debut startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence GuardianI would be lying if I said my mothers misery has never given me pleasureThis is a tale of obsession and betrayal This is a poisoned love story But not between lovers between mother and daughter Tara and Antara a woman and her angry shadow But which one is whichSharp as a blade and compulsively readable Burnt Sugar slowly untangles the knot of memory and rumour that binds two women together revealing the truth that lies beneathA work of extraordinary insight courage and sophistication Washington PostArresting and fiercely intelligent disarmingly witty and frank Sunday Times A sly slippery often heartbreaking novel about the role memory plays within families StylistExtraordinary Come for the effortlessly stylish writing stay for the boiling wrath Observer
