Nina is a thirty year old English lecturer, struggling to make ends meet for herself and her widowed mother. She sees herself as increasingly off the shelf but then, unexpectedly, a proposal arrives. Ananda is a dentist in Halifax, Canada. When the two marry, she leaves her home and her country to build a new life with her husband. But there is always more to marriage than courtship. And as Nina discovers truths about her husband-both sexual and emotional-her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel. No one writes about middle class family life with the nuance and tenderness of Manju Kapur. The Immigrant is another mesmerising saga from this most beloved of novelists.