Waterstones eleven: Sathnam Sanghera on Marriage Material

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Our Waterstones eleven début novel of the month for October is Sathnam Sanghera's Marriage Material. Find out more about the book in our interview...

Times journalist, and author of the acclaimed memoir The Boy with the Topknot, Sathnam Sanghera's debut novel Marriage Material  takes its inspiration from Taking inspiration from Arnold Bennett's classic Victorian novel The Old Wives' Tale. But Sanghera's epic story transposes the narrative to the Black Country, and focusses on a dynasty of owners of a Wolverhampton corner shop, as returning son Arjan Banga prepares for marriage...

You can buy Marriage Material at your local Waterstones bookshop (http://bit.ly/1fWBnwb), online at Waterstones.com (http://bit.ly/1fWB8RP) or in ePub format (http://bit.ly/1fWBrvT)

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