Aftertaste

In her bestselling novel Aftertaste (over 5000 hardback copies sold) Namita Devidayal provides a captivating account of a baniya family settled in Punjab headed by a matriarch Mummyji who is in hospital after a stroke. The Todarmal family glued together by money not love includes the weak and emasculated Rajan Papa who is desperately in need of cash; Sunny the dynamic head of the business with an ugly marriage and a demanding mistress; Suman the spoilt and greedy beauty of the family who is determined to get her hands on Mummyji's best jewels; and Saroj Suman's unlucky sister who has always lived in her shadow. Each one of them wants Mummyji to die.