The Two-Tailed Snake

<p><strong><em>'An accomplished story of familial love and separation set in an India of looming partition'</em> -Mike Fox Author of The Violet Eye</strong></p><p></p><p>North-east India 1945. Tensions are rising but fourteen-year-old Joya doesn't pay much attention to 'political business' - she is more concerned with doing well at school and having fun with her best friends.</p><p></p><p>Yet when her father disappears without a trace Joya's life falls apart. Forced to drop out of school and support her mother by working in a garment factory she refuses to accept that her father is gone forever spending her nights sewing him a suit from scraps of fine material.</p><p></p><p>But as political unrest grows and rumours of corruption spread Joya questions the true nature of her father's disappearance. And who is the sinister figure known only as the two-tailed snake?</p><p></p><p>A moving and deftly woven literary novella.</p>