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The Good Children

Roopa Farooki

Few novels are life-changing; this one just might be' Daily MailLeaving home is one thing. Surviving is another.In 1940s Lahore, the Punjab, two brothers and two sisters are beaten and browbeaten into 'good children'.Each has a destiny to fulfil. Sully and Jakie will be doctors, Mae and Lana dutiful wives. But Sully falls for an unsuitable girl, Jakie an unsuitable man. Mae and Lana disgrace themselves and disobey.Rebelling is easy when you're far from home. But the ties that bind them across cultures, continents and time can never be broken. And when, decades later, death draws them back, it will affect them in ways they never imagined.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : OCT 23, 2014
  • Imprint : Tinder Press
  • Page Extent : 496
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780755383443
  • Price : INR 999
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Roopa Farooki

Roopa Farooki was born in Lahore in Pakistan and brought up in London. She graduated from New College Oxford and worked in advertising before turning to write fiction. Roopa now lives in south-east England and south-west France with her husband twin baby girls and two sons. Bitter Sweets her first novel was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writers 2007. Roopa`s novels have been published internationally and translated into a dozen languages.

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