ARUNDHATI ROY - Mother Mary Comes To Me , in hardback , First Edition / Impression published by Hamish Hamilton in 2025 .
The book is signed by the author - it is one of a limited number of first editions published signed by the author .
The Booker Prize-winning author looks into her life so far .
" A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother , Mary Roy , a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer .
" Mother Mary Comes to Me , Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir , is a soaring account , both intimate and inspirational , of how the author became the person and the writer she is , shaped by circumstance , but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary , singular mother she describes as ' my shelter and my storm ' .
" ' Heart-smashed ' by her mother Mary’s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and ' more than a little ashamed ' by the intensity of her response , Roy began to write , to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen , ' not because I didn’t love her , but in order to be able to continue to love her ' . And so begins this astonishing , sometimes disturbing , and surprisingly funny memoir of the author’s journey from her childhood in Kerala , India , where her single mother founded a school , to the writing of her prize-winning novels and essays , through today .
" With the scale , sweep , and depth of her novels , The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , and the passion , political clarity , and warmth of her essays , Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom , a tribute to thorny love and savage grace - a memoir like no other . "
About Arundhati Roy
As the world knows , Arundhati Roy's defence of her principles ( and of the underprivileged , the forgotten and the threatened in her homeland ) have taken her to court many times and , notoriously , to prison for one night in March 2002 . The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker Prize and was an international No 1 bestseller .
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