Shortlisted for Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Chosen as a Book of the Year by THE GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESS, IRISH TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, NEWSWEEK, PEOPLE, KIRKUS, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND GOODREADS
WINNER OF THE 2019 JCB PRIZE FOR LITEARTURE WINNER OF THE 2019 TATA LITERATURE LIVE! FIRST BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE 2019 CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE
"Most collections of short stories work by the interplay of different voices. This one offers the more satisfying rewards of a novel: unity of tone and a richness of recurring detail that creates its own texture: spaghetti, lawns, hamburgers, beer-drinking, kid sisters, Sunday afternoons, a man's name" - INDEPENDENT Enchanting...intriguing... All of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and…
* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* 'A gorgeous, jewelled, luxurious book' - The Times Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' - Daily Telegraph 'With it's timely, through provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon' - Independent
