Reese Witherspoon's March Book Club Pick! 'Big-hearted earthy and funny... A rattlingly good
story' Deborah Moggach The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Every woman has a secret life... When
Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple with visions of emancipating the women
of the community she left behind as a self-important teenager she's shocked to discover a
group of barely literate women who have no interest in her ideals. Yet to her surprise the
white dupatta of the widow hides more than just their modesty - these are women who have spent
their lives in the shadows of fathers brothers and husbands being dutiful raising children
and going to temple but whose inner lives are as rich and fruitful as their untold stories.
But as they begin to open up to each other about womanhood sexuality and the dark secrets
within the community Nikki realises that the illicit nature of the class may place them all in
danger. East meets west and tradition clashes with modernity in a thought-provoking
cross-cultural novel that might make you look again at the women in your life...
