Burnt Sugar

A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill, Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk and Diana Evans `Beautifully written, emotionally wrenching and poignant in equal measure` The Booker Prize Judges 2020 `An unsettling, sinewy debut, startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence` Guardian `I would be lying if I said my mother`s misery has never given me pleasure.` This is a tale of obsession and betrayal. This is a poisoned love story. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Tara and Antara, the woman and her angry shadow. But which one is which? Sharp as a blade and compulsively readable, Burnt Sugar slowly untangles the knot of memory and fiction that binds two women together, revealing the truth that lies beneath.