Travels With My Aunts

The day Mayadevi turned sixty-eight seventy or seventy-five (her date of birth was an ever-changing fact linked to her moods) she decided to go to London ... . One bright warm morning sometime in 1908 Anima decided to wash her hair on a Wednesday instead of the usual Monday. This ordinary everyday decision changed the course of her destiny ... . When Gita s husband disappeared one night quietly leaving only a smudged one-line note saying he was renouncing the world to become a holy man she too suddenly decided to break away ... . Eleven eccentric aunts eleven delicious stories of waywardness obduracy adventure and rebellion by those from whom it s least expected women who ve been trained to conform. Bulbul Sharma s fictional aunts refuse to do so and end up in situations that they handle with aplomb. They keep you guessing till you put the book down!