Mother Mary Comes to Me

The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things

Read by: Arundhati Roy

Author: Arundhati Roy

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Published: 4th September 2025

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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things**

Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as 'my shelter and my storm'.

Distraught and even a "little ashamed" at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle—unique and simultaneously universal, of the author's life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other.

'Brave and absorbing' Guardian

'Beautifully written...It's a total pleasure to spend time with Arundhati Roy's mind and memory in this funny, wise, candid and perceptive memoir.' Independent, 'Book of the Month' (5 stars)

'The best piece of non-fiction she has ever written' The Telegraph