Love The Dark Days
Ira Mathur, Peepal Tree Press, £12.99
Mathur’s memoir of life in post-independence India, the Caribbean and Britain is blisteringly candid.
She relives racism and prejudice she experienced as the darker-skinned product of a light-skinned Muslim mother and a Hindu father. Brought up by her sometimes cruel gran, whose elite Muslim family colluded with the brutality of the British rule, she charts her struggles in this absorbing account.