Roopa’s first novel, Bitter Sweets, was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writers 2007, and has been followed by five further novels which have been longlisted twice for the Orange Prize, the Impac Dublin Literary Award, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, published internationally and translated into a dozen languages. Everything you want to know about the author and her work is here. Go to NEWS for the latest direct from the author, and get in touch with Roopa on her Facebook Fan site or Twitter. And thanks for visiting