Acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy remains, twenty years after publication, one of the most entrancing and spellbinding works of fiction yet written. A love story as well as the tale of a country awakening from long years of colonial rule, it tells of Lata, and of her mother’s exacting attempts to find her the perfect husband. It also recounts India’s troubles shaping its own destiny as the country marches towards its first great General Election. Vikram Seth’s historical novel A Suitable Boy is a story that readers the world over can neither put down nor ever forget. ‘Fiction on a grand scale. By the time you reach the last page you will have absorbed a splendid story, full of the tangle and perfume of India’ Sunday Telegraph ‘No one, surely, could wish this novel shorter. The greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart’ Observer