Book Description

A poisoned love story. But not between lovers but between mother and daughter. In her youth. Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram took a hapless artist for a lover rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman all with her young child in tow. Years on she is an old woman with a fading memory, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a mother who never seemed to care for her