The Right Sort of Girl: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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When Baby finds some love letters between her grandfather and a woman she knows nothing about and is clearly not her Dadima. There are many layers to this story, including romance, Indian culture and some gorgeous food descriptions. What the story highlighted very well is that in Indian culture there are a lot of family secrets that are never spoken about or acknowledged. Her love life is permanently casual, she's grieving for her dad, and if her mother and the aunties don't stop asking her when she's going to settle down and start having babies, she might just lose it. Publishing Director Melissa Cox acquired world English language and translation rights from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.

She’s going to go to India, find out why her family left, do some detective work on this mysterious other woman and maybe find out a bit more about herself along the way.Zaffre, the flagship fiction imprint of Bonnier Books UK, is to publish broadcaster, former Strictly contestant, and Sunday Times bestselling author Anita Rani’s debut novel, Baby Does a Runner. TBH it felt a bit like when Americans claim they are Irish because their great-great grandparents were Irish (and I know I few English people who do the same). It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times.

Yes, Baby didn't know much about the British rule of India, but that could be said about the British rule of Kenya, or Barbados - by and large British children aren't taught about the atrocities and oppression of British colonisation of any countries and Baby's family were keen to avoid discussion of the past, they believed moving to the UK had wiped the slate clean and it was a new start for all. Her love of the sea, her difficult past and her desire to captain her own ship sets her on a course of love, pirates, murder, and the slave trade that finds her at the mercy of forces she’s unable to contain. The one thing that I thought was brilliant and which I keep coming back to, is the fact that with the exception of Sid (and even he's just a foil for Baby), men play only a cursory part in this story.In the past she avoided wanting to know about her history and to fully understand who she is because it would mark her out as even more different to her peers. It was a fun and light read but it does delve into heavy topics that are hardly discussed in the UK. Afterwards, you know, you have a debrief and there wasn’t a woman in the office who wasn’t just like, we love Selena, we want to go for a drink with her. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Baby hasn't been to India since she was a child and holds many common misconceptions about her ancestral homeland, a fact that her auntie's neighbour Sid takes great pleasure in disabusing, accusing her of undertaking some kind of Eat, Pray, Love journey and mocking her for her assumptions about how backward India would be compared to London.