My desert island book would have to be A Suitable Boy. From the pistachio ice cream in the opening chapter to the orange peel on the train in the final chapter it was a book that had me hooked in Lata’s loves and shoes and Indian politics – not subjects I usually find interesting. Seth has the capacity to make whatever he writes seem real and so real that you can live in the book – you want to curl up in the book and the joy is that it is so long. You can curl up for an eternity.