''A Suitable Girl'' is an upcoming novel by

Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crosswor ...

that is a sequel to his 1993 book ''

A Suitable Boy ''A Suitable Boy'' is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume. ''A Suitable Boy'' is set in a newly post-inde ...

''. 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". The book was announced in 2009 but has yet to be completed. After Seth missed a deadline to submit the manuscript to Penguin Publisher in June 2013, it was announced that the new novel would be published in autumn of 2016 by Orion Publishers, which had published ''A Suitable Boy''. 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 Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. Mike Rose found that this creative stall is not a result of commitment problems or th ...

as a result of the failure of a romantic relationship. 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 ''

'' universe to be collectively called ''A Bridge of Leaves''.

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Novels by Vikram Seth Upcoming books {{2000s-novel-stub