Life Less Ordinary

<p>When she was very young Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twice her age who beat her. At fourteen she was a mother herself. Her early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak until exhausted and desperate she fled with her three children to Delhi to work as a maid in some of the city's wealthiest homes. Expected to serve her employers' every demand she faced a staggering workload that often left her no time to care for her own children. But she never complained for such is the lot of the poor in modern-day India.</p><p>Written without a trace of self-pity <em>A Life Less Ordinary</em> is a shocking look deep inside a world of poverty and subjugation that few outsiders know about--and an inspiring true story of one remarkable woman's strength courage and determination to soar above her circumstances.</p>