Fairfax Media via Getty Images In the 72-year history of the National Book Awards, there have been 79 winners in the fiction category only 19 of which have been women. The awards, considered some of the most prestigious for literature in the country,.
A British Indian and a native Londoner, both trainee doctors, get engaged, but when the future mother-in-laws meet fireworks begin going off. It’s all in good fun, though, in the Brick Lane author’s fifth novel.