ONE FOOT WRONG (MARATHI)

A brilliant first novel of profound depth startling originality and breathtaking talent. A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat Spoon Door Handle Broom and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by one book an illustrated childs bible and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic connection. One day Hester takes a brave Alice in Wonderland trip into the forbidden outside (at the behest of Handle - turn me turn me) and this overwhelming encounter with light and sky and sunshine is a marvel to her. From this moment on Hester learns the concept of the secret and not telling and the world becomes something that fills her with feeling as if she is a vessel empty and bottomless for need of it.