Booker winner adapted for radio

Arundhati Roy was briefly jailed in India for her outspoken views

Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things is being adapted for radio.

It is being made into a 10-part drama, to be broadcast during BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour from 12 July.

Set in both the present and 1969 India, it features twins Rahel and Estha who are reunited after 27 years.

Dramatised by Tanika Gupta, the radio production will feature new music by Mercury Music Prize-nominated composer Nitin Sawhney.

Radical

"It is a story which deals with big themes such as the way women who are abused can often become the abusers," said a Radio 4 spokeswoman.

"It looks at the status of single mothers and their children within a traditional family, how family members jostle for status and how cruel adults can be towards children."

The God of Small Things was Indian novelist Roy's debut novel, winning the Booker Prize in October 1997.

It went on to sell six million copies in 40 languages, but Roy has since become as well known for her radical political stances.

She was briefly jailed in India in 2002 after a campaign of opposition to India's Narmada Dam project, and remains an outspoken activist.