Join us for a special evening celebrating the incredible first memoir from the booker-winning literary icon Arundhati Roy, author of _The God of Small Things._ Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as 'my shelter and my storm'. Born out of the onrush of memories and feelings provoked by her mother Mary's death, this is the astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny memoir of the Arundhati Roy's life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi. With the scale, sweep and depth of her novels, _The God of Small Things_ and _The Ministry of Utmost Happiness_, and the passion, political clarity and warmth of her essays, this book is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace - a memoir like no other. Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels _The God of Small Things_, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and _The Ministry of Utmost Happiness_, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including _My Seditious Heart_, _Azadi_ and, most recently, _The Architecture of Modern Empire_.