book cover of Boundary Road
 

Boundary Road

(2023)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2024 Jhalak Prize (nominee)

A story of colliding lives, beguiling opportunities, and dangerous illusions. A compelling blend of comedy and tragedy. Love, desire, fear, and dreams on a London bus: we're on the thirteen, heading for Boundary Road. People get on and off leaving something of themselves behind, but two of the passengers have past they can't escape.

People can't stop talking. A giddy cocktail of monologues, dialogues, memories and gleeful anticipation. It's amazing what people will say to total strangers. Suddenly the unsayable just trips off the tongue and there's so much feeling behind it, and hours of thought, sprinkled with melancholy or sharp blades of aggression. Some people just accept what life offers, while others become relentless and dangerously determined.

A man haunted by his past and the many pasts of his family, but in love with the present; all that’s greeting his senses right now. He’s charming but he’s got a secret waiting to catch up with him. A woman stifled by lack of affection but determined to do what’s right. A man obsessed with architecture and in love with a painting. For most, it’s a liberating opportunity to exchange confidences with a stranger, but for two of the passengers this journey will be unexpectedly life changing.


‘I really admired the intense, heartfelt, richly cumulative world of Boundary Road. Mesmerising’ Alison Moore, author of The Lighthouse

‘Rao has created a vibrancy and eclecticism which is so true to life’ NB Magazine

‘Rao skilfully treads the boundary between fiction and non-fiction to offer a fascinating cross section of contemporary multicultural London from the top of a double-decker bus’ Priscilla Morris, author of Black Butterflies




Genre: Literary Fiction

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