A Married Woman

✍ Scribed by Manju Kapur

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2012;2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0571267807

✦ Synopsis

Astha has everything an educated, middle-class Delhi woman could ask for - children, a dutiful loving husband, and comfortable surroundings. So why should she be consumed with a sense of unease and dissatisfaction?

Astha finds herself embarking on a powerfully physical relationship with a much younger woman, Pipee, the widow of a political activist. But with this extra-marital affair is she foolishly jeopardizing everything - or is Astha at last throwing off the fear and timidity instilled in her by her parents, her husband, her social class?

Manju Kapur, celebrated author of the prize-winning Difficult Daughters , has written a seductive and beautifully honest story of love and betrayal, set at a time of on-going political and religious upheaval. Told with great sympathy and intelligence, and without a shred of sentimentality, A Married Woman is a story for anyone who has felt trapped by life's responsibilities.