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 is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.

Report

Brave and absorbing . . . In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother . . . The world described in the first part of the book provides much of the material for The God of Small Things. But these pages aren't significant for giving us access to Roy's inspiration, or as a preamble to her life as a bestselling writer who would go on to become an oppositional political voice. Even if she were none of these things or had never written her novel, they would be utterly absorbing. They have a wonderful, self-assured self-sufficiency Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Arundhati Roy, Roy Arundhati
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9780241761724
• ISBN: 978-0-241-76172-4
• No. of pages: 373
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• 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, Kerala, New Delhi, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Parenting: advice and issues, Autobiography: writers, c 2010 to c 2019, c 2020 to c 2029, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional