Dimensions
138 x 216 x 30mm
In 1950s Bengal, Henna Rub, a precocious, wayward teenager, brings off a brilliant marriage to a wealthy romantic, Ricky Karim, trapping him with a web of lies that she has spun with her wheeler-dealer father.
And so on his wedding night, believing himself married to an educated, sonnet-reading, tennis-playing soul mate, Ricky is horrified to discover that his new wife is in fact a lazy, illiterate, shopkeeper's daughter.
As Ricky and Henna uneasily tolerate their loveless marriage of convenience, the way is paved for a future of double-lives and complicit deception -- an unspoken family tradition that is inherited by their daughter Shona, who elopes with her love to live above a subcontinental sweetshop in 1980s South London.
But two decades later, with her own children grown, it is Shona who is forced to discover the unpalatable truth about her loved ones, and come to terms with the lies which superficially hold the three generations of their family together... and which are really keeping them apart.
