Manju Kapur is a professor of English at Miranda House in Delhi.
Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, received the Commonwealth Award
for the Eurasian region. The book is set during India's independence
struggle and is partially based on the life of Kapur's own mother,
Virmati (whose photograph, along with Kapur's father, is on the cover
of the bok). Virmati enters into a scandalous relationship with her
married neighbour, the Professor. The relationship parallels
India's battle for freedom, and eventually Virmati becomes the
Professor's second wife. The book is set mostly in Amritsar and
Lahore.Kapur lives in Delhi and has three daughters.
The consequences of change are far greater than she could have imagined. As the two of them struggle to adapt to married life, Nina's whole world is thrown into question. And as certain truths threaten the marriage, her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel.
