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Mother Mary Comes To Me

by Arundhati Roy

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · September 7, 2025

Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance

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A memoir by the Booker Prize-winning novelist in which she reflects on her foremost influences, exploring how her writing and activism were shaped by early financial and political circumstances, with her relationship with her mother — described as 'my shelter and my storm' — at the centre.

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