The hardware store is at the centre of the lives of four Indian immigrants: Vasuman ‘Mr’ Gupta, his beautiful wife, Meera, his employee, Chandu Kumar, and C

The third book in the 'world fiction' series after Mr Gupta's Hardware Store and The House of Rani Kapur.

Delhi, India, 1947. During the havoc of partition, orphaned fifteen-year-old, Rani Kapur, is attacked and raped before being left for dead in a ditch. Rescued b

A hilltop village in Southwest France. The view is idyllic, and to an outsider, the lives lived there are too.

Set in the cities of Carcassonne, Toulouse and Paris, the story follows the life of fractured child, Hugo, as he becomes a man; his psyche twisted by events ove