A Suitable Girl

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A Suitable Girl is a forthcoming novel by Vikram Seth, which is a sequel to his 1993 book A Suitable Boy.[1][2] Seth has said the book will be set in the present, rather than in 1952 when A Suitable Boy finished, and will therefore be what Seth calls a "jump sequel".[1][2] After Seth missed a deadline to submit the manuscript to Penguin Publisher in June 2013,[3] it was announced that the new novel would be published in autumn of 2016 by Orion Publishers, which had published A Suitable Boy.[4] In May 2015, it was reported that Seth was hoping to finish writing the book in 2016, for publication in 2017. Seth explained that he had missed the Penguin deadline due to suffering from writer's block as a result of the failure of his relationship with Philippe Honoré.[5] As of 2020 the novel was still unfinished though Seth confirmed in a 2018 interview that he was still working on the book as well as more material in the A Suitable Boy universe to be collectively called A Bridge of Leaves.[6]

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  1. ^ a b "Seth writing Suitable Boy sequel". BBC News. 2 July 2009. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
  2. ^ a b Flood, Alison (3 July 2009). "Vikram Seth writes Suitable Boy sequel". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
  3. ^ Armitstead, Claire (10 July 2013). "Vikram Seth in trouble over uncompleted Suitable Boy sequel". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  4. ^ Burly, Liz (13 Sep 2013). "Vikram Seth finds a suitable publisher". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Vikram Seth: Breakup with long-term partner delayed sequel to 'A Suitable Boy'". First Post. 3 May 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  6. ^ "'Obsession kept me going': Writer Vikram Seth on 25 years of A Suitable Boy". Retrieved 17 February 2020.


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