![]() ![]() Touching and funny' Irish Times 'Delightful. 'A near-perfect account of a psychologically troubled mother. Of how Imelda was courted by Augustine - 'Hello, Buttercup' - and of how with the passage of time and the arrival of her children she slowly turned into Em, loving and loathing a world terrified of her extravagant excesses. And here is the story of how this family of four came to be. ![]() Her husband - Augustine, the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure her 'microweathers': swings from searing joy to brooding malevolence. I cant remember when I last read something as touching as this' Amitav Ghosh 'Hilarious, reckless, brilliant' Kiran Desai In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years. ![]()
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