About the Author

Kishwar Desai has worked in print and broadcast media as journalist, scriptwriter, TV anchor, producer and the head of a TV channel in India. Her first book, Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, was published by HarperCollins India in 2007. Kishwar lives between London, Delhi and Goa. This is her first novel and has won of the 2010 COSTA first novel award and was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2009.