This is beautifully written. Before even looking at the story, I enjoyed reading this, I think I enjoyed the reading experience more that the book. For me, I think I'd benefit from rereading this, I know there are a couple of members of the #Manbookering group that have said the same thing. There are things that I'm sure I missed this time around. 
 This jumps around in time so at some points when I was listening to the audio, I had to backtrack, refocus. I had intense feeling about the characters, mostly dislike, bordering on hate - I'm looking at you Baby Kochamma, (Between this and Island Beneath the Sea, I'm two for two on characters that I want to punch). I'm not really familiar with this time period in India so parts were confusing, I really need to look more into the caste system.