Mistress

6 best books like Mistress (Anita Nair): Imaginary Men, Nothing Ventured, The Forest of Enchantments, Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny, He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself, Em and The Big Hoom

Imaginary Men

Author	Anjali Banerjee
ISBN	1416509437

This charming novel about a Bengali-American matchmaker in San Francisco who creates an imaginary fiancé in order to satisfy her marriage-minded traditional parents offers a fresh variation on the timeless theme of a young woman's quest for true love.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Lina...

Nothing Ventured

Author	Jeffrey Archer
ISBN	1250200768

Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . .

William Warwick has always...

The Forest of Enchantments

Author	Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
ISBN	9353025982

The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s version.

The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic,...

Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny

Author	Preeti Shenoy
ISBN	9380349300

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The heart-warming story of a young girl who struggles against all odds, when life as she knows it is disrupted What would you do if the perfect life you have is torn asunder?

Set across two cities in India in the early eighties, Life Is What...

He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself

Author	Adam Price
ISBN	1454916877

“Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look at an old problem—the underperforming teenage boy… Price’s book brings an important voice to a much needed conversation.” —Library Journal (Starred review)
On the surface, capable...

Em and The Big Hoom

Author	Jerry Pinto
ISBN	8192328023

The tragedy of words like 'touching' and 'poignant' is that they have become hackneyed to the point they only give rise to skepticism if one spots them in a blurb. And yet I can't think of word choices more apt at the moment.

After having had nothing but disdain for the present crop of Indian Dan...