Mother Mary Comes to Me

<The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of

Arundhati Roy''s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, 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''.

Born out of the onrush of memories and feelings provoked by her mother Mary''s death, this is the astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny memoir of the Arundhati Roy''s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

With the scale, sweep and depth of her novels,

About the author

Arundhati Roy

Product details

• Authors: Arundhati Roy, Roy Arundhati
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9780241761724
• ISBN: 978-0-241-76172-4
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / School Age, India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Autobiography: writers, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional