Francescina & Kate’s Reviews > A Suitable Boy > Status Update

"When Lata had taken into her head the idea to become a nun [...] Arun, exasperated with the lack of success of his bludgeoning attempts at dissuasion, had said 'All right, go ahead, become a nun, ruin your life, no one would have married you anyway, you look just like the Bible - flat in the front and flat at the back' "

This book takes up like a fifth of the space on my shelf - Francescina