Bitter Sweets — Roopa Farooki

Henna Rub is a precocious teenager whose sumptuous Calcutta marriage to wealthy romantic Ricky-Rashid Karim is achieved by an audacious network of lies. When Ricky does learn the truth about his seductive bride, the way has already been paved toward a future of double lives and deception -- family traits that become an instinctive and unspoken tradition.

Years later, their daughter Shona, conceived on a lie and born in a liar's house, continues the legacy when she elopes with her secret love to live above a sweet shop in South London. When she is forced to discover unspeakable truths about her loved ones. Shona finds her life stripped of meaning and the foundations of her family shaken. Can what has been superficial be replaced with honesty and strength? Can love be strong enough to right the wrongs of the past? Exotic and real, a tale of searing love, disappointment, and new hope, Roopa Farooki's powerful, emotional Indian saga will dazzle and captivate.