Keeping in Touch
Overview
From award-winning writer Anjali Joseph, a compelling new novel about a dysfunctional love affair.
Meet Ved, a British investor heading back to his Indian roots with a business proposition: a lightbulb called the everlasting Lucifer.
Meet Keteki, an art curator with a nomadic lifestyle, on her way home to Assam.
In Heathrow airport, on the way to Mumbai, their paths cross, sparking a love affair that soon turns into an intricate power game — and a complicated journey towards intimacy.
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- Hardback
- 210mm x 148mm
- 240 pages
- 9781913348663
- GBP£14.99
- 9 June 2022
- World English (ex. India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
- Greene & Heaton
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Awards
- Shortlisted for the 2023 The SOA Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize
Praise
‘Keeping in Touch is an unsettling slow burn of a novel, as quiet and funny as it is a searing and precise portrait of the human condition. Anjali’s writing is calm and restrained but the novel builds such intensity through her powerful observation. A real beauty.’
‘It is at its best in scene-setting or when conjuring up the exquisiteness of India, whether the unkempt, lush splendour of Assam … or simply a wet day in Delhi.’
About the Author
Anjali Joseph is an Indian novelist living in Britain. Her first novel, Saraswati Park, won the Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Her work illuminates the inner lives of characters: from a Bombay letter writer to a single mother in a Norwich factory, or the sceptical late-thirties protagonists of her latest novel, Keeping in Touch, as they navigate falling in love. Anjali’s gift is to make art that reconnects readers to their sense of magic. She is working on a novel about the Irish naval officer and archaeoastronomer Boyle Somerville.
