num_pages: 240
description: In her youth Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents) and spent years chasing after a dishevelled homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.This is a love story and a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery choking cord of memory and myth that binds two women together making and unmaking them endlessly.
language: English
title: Burnt Sugar
publisher: Hamish Hamilton