Second Thoughts

The New Bestseller From India'S Biggest Selling Novelist A Bittersweet Love Story For The Nineties It Seems Like The Perfect Match. Maya Is Pretty, Young, Eager To Escape Her Dull, Middle-Class Home In Calcutta And Plunge Into The Whirl Of Bombay, Where She Moves After Her Marriage. Ranjan, Handsome, Hard-Driving And Ambitious, Has All The Glamour Of An American University Degree And A Wealthy Family Background. Maya Is Determined To Be The Ideal Wife. Instead, She Finds Herself Trapped And Stifled By The Confines Of An Arranged Marriage To A Man Who, She Discovers, Is Rigidly Conservative And Completely Indifferent To Her Desires. She Begins To Experience, Too, The Utter Loneliness Of A Stranger In Suburban Bombay. And Then She Strikes Up A Friendship With Nikhil, Her Charming, College-Going Neighbour, And The Stage Is Set For An Explosive Tale Of Love, Betrayal And Paths Not Taken.