Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Adam Kay's novel "Remember, Mr. Sharma" is a magical tale of a troubled family in Delhi, India, in 1997. Twelve-year-old Adi finds an unlikely ally: a talking vulture from the Department of Historical Adjustment, which holds his family files and reveals the darkest secrets of his mother's past. The book explores how we view the past and its hold over us, and the stories we tell to set ourselves free.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Featuring on BBC2's Between the Covers TV Book Club presented by Sara Cox


Thoroughly accomplished, beautifully written


Adam Kay, BBC Between the Covers


A magical tale of a troubled family


Daily Telegraph


Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year-old Adi has a bigger problem: his Ma has gone missing - again. Left with an ailing grandmother, a raging father, and no answers, he finds an unlikely ally: a talking vulture who reveals itself to be a bureaucrat from the Department of Historical Adjustment. The Department holds Adi's family files, which will take him on a journey through time and memory, through fifty years of India's history, uncovering the darkest secrets of his Ma's past. But first, he must unlock them by facing his greatest fears.


As bright and hopeful as it is devastating, Remember, Mr Sharma explores the ways in which we view the past, its inescapable hold over us, and the stories we tell to set ourselves free.

Weight: 268g
Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399714471