Preethi Nair

»Tu, was du liebst, finde den Takt und lausche dem magischen Gespräch.« Zitronensaft und Ingwer für die Seele, Mango für die Träume und Honig für den inneren Frieden – in ihrem indischen Heimatdorf war Nalini dafür berühmt, mit ihren sinnlichen Speisen Körper und Geist heilen zu können. Bis Familienoberhaupt Raul entscheidet, sie und ihre beiden Kinder zu sich ins ferne London zu holen … Ein...

Stunning novel in which a young Indian woman, raised in London to fulfil her parents’ dreams of respectability, sets off in search of her own dreams – and disrupts the whole family.‘Tell me about your dreams, and if you have dared to follow them.’ This is the challenge for three members of the Vishavan family.Evita (real name Molu, but she’s always had a tendency towards the theatrical) is stuck i...

A novel of painting, pretence and the strange ways in which truth makes itself known, from the author of ONE HUNDRED SHADES OF WHITENina’s lost her job, boyfriend and faith in her guru in the space of 24 hours. Unable to tell her parents what has happened, she puts on a suit every day and pretends to go to work.What she’s really doing is escaping to a studio, where she begins to paint for the firs...