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The first readers: what they thought

All the Lives We Never Lived was published on 15th May 2018 in India and 30th May 2015 in the UK “. . . moving and brilliant . . . In the way that only fiction can do, Anuradha Roy’s thoughtful, eloquent and beautifully wrought novel allows us to feel the pulse of human actors whose lives and choices constitute an alternative to political history, yet prove that the personal is also the political” Supriya Chaudhuri, Biblio "a writer of great subtlety and intelligence...a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and of what remains in the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, Guardian "An extraordinary writer with many gifts" Tishani Doshi, Hindu "This questioning and subtle book, which ranges through freedom, nationalism and ecology, but is really a meditation on history itself. ... The scope of All the Lives We Never Lived is vast but also personal, both in temporal and geographical terms. It manages to retain a closely observed and r