Hardback, 2017, Hamish Hamilton. First Edition. An exclusive signed edition. Some discolouration and foxing to top of page block (which is otherwise clean and bright). Purple endpapers. With dustwrapper (unclipped, in protective cover). Sold by Blackwell's. So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest-house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who although she is loved by three men, lives in a 'country of her own skin' . When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny and that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight...