Half Life: A Novel

From the author of Corner Shop and Bitter Sweets comes a luminous new novel about one womans journey back home - to a past she once wanted only to forget.. Its time to stop fighting and go home. . Those were the words written by a minor but well-reputed Bengali poet that finally persuaded Aruna Ahmed Jones to exit her ground-floor Victorian flat wearing only jeans and a t-shirt carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag and keep on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones her husband of less than a year Aruna heads to Heathrow where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life. . When Aruna left for London she was fleeing many things: her recently deceased father the only family shed ever had; her best friend and lover Jazz and the life theyd tried and failed to create together; the complicated psychological diagnosis she preferred to forget. . But after years of fleeing the ghosts that continue to haunt her Aruna is about to discover that running away is really the easy part; it is coming home―making peace with Jazz with her past and even with herself―that is hard. With shades of Slumdog Millionaire and The Namesake Roopa Farookis novel is luminous and gripping.