Leela’s Book

Leela – alluring, taciturn, haunted – is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York. She knows her return will disrupt precariously balanced lives. Twenty years ago her sister Meera died, taking a devastating secret with her. Now, as the family gathers for a wedding, Leela must sift truth from fiction.Meanwhile the bride’s father plots political conquest, the groom realises that he has fallen in love with his brother-in-law to be, and Ganesh – elephant-headed god and scribe of India’s great epic, the Mahabharata – claims both Leela and the novel as his own creation.Brilliantly playful and entertaining,and Leela’s Bookand weaves a poignant tale of contemporary life in an ancient city.