<b>'I couldn't put it down - a moving, heartbreaking (and repairing) family drama. The writing is gorgeous, transporting, powerful: this will be one of the big adult novels of the year' </b><i>The Spinoff</i><br/><i><br/></i><b>'In <i>Amma</i>, the past is never far away - it binds three generations of remarkable women, each juggling their own desires and secrets with the expectations placed on them by tradition and the volatile environments they find themselves in ... A book as shocking and revelatory as any family secret, <i>Amma</i> will leave you shaken and reminded of the power of love and loyalty'</b> Chris Tse, New Zealand Poet Laureate<br/><b><i><b><i><br/></i></b>Singapore, 1951</i></b><br/>When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the lives of generations to come.<br/><br/><b><i>New Zealand, 1984</i></b><br/>Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home is not what they expected, and for the children, Sithara and Suri, a sudden and shocking event changes everything.<br/><br/><b><i>London, 2018</i></b><br/>Arriving on her uncle Suri's doorstep, jetlagged and heartbroken, Annie has no idea what to expect - all she knows is that Suri was cast out of the family before she was born.<br/><br/><b>Moving between cities and generations, <i>Amma</i> follows three women on very different paths,</b> <b>against a backdrop of shifting cultures. As circumstance and misunderstanding force them apart, it will take the most profound love to knit them back together before it's too late.</b><br/><b><br/></b>'I can't remember the last time a book held me captive the way <i>Amma</i> did... the power of memory, of perspective, pain and love in all its different forms through the eyes of three unforgettable women'<b> Ore Agbaje-Williams</b><br/><b></b>