In a world of women written by men, we bring to you women written by women! If you are looking for messy, independent, and strong protagonists, The Bombay Circle Press has got you covered! We have some astonishing and relatable stories that will help you get over any problems that you are currently facing. So, grab a cup of hot chai and prepare to read some of the best modern women’s fiction.
Debut author Neerja Pawar has infused her novel with all the love, banter and men written by women she wishes to see in the real world.
Rosa Álvarez leads two lives. One is deceptively normal. A respectable physiotherapist living in Los Angeles: the city of fish tacos and famous bigwigs.The other is her mother’s worst nightmare.
For one, the first is a lie. She does love her job, but its uniqueness would put any good chick flick to shame. She hasn’t been on a date in five years, at least, not any good ones. But when a notorious man from her past shows up in LA, Rosa’s secret life starts unravelling. There’s also the matter of the really annoying actor (who just so happens to be annoyingly good-looking) she keeps bumping into whom she cannot seem to shake off.
A one-night-stand with a world-famous rockstar is the one wild thing she’s ever done—the one juicy story she can tell when she and her friends are gossiping. But that one-night-stand turns her world upside down when she ends up in a pharmacy parking lot, three weeks later, with a positive pregnancy test in her hands.
When Chloe finally manages to tell Luke about the baby she’s more than surprised to hear that he wants to be in the baby’s life. The next thing she knows, she’s following him and his band on tour so the two of them can get to know each other and figure out this soon-to-be-parents thing together. And to do that, they both agree that they need to ignore the undeniable chemistry between them.
You’re your own best friend. Nobody knows you better than you. Talk to yourself like you would talk to someone you love. These are all cliches advice columnist Joannie Simmons shied away from—until a ghost of her younger self confronts her via email. Joannie always thought that advice was timeless. The devices and the lingo may change, but the problems remain the same. But Joannie’s in for a rude shock when she’s unceremoniously dumped from The Valley News where she worked for over thirty years as an advice columnist. Joannie doesn’t know what to do with herself anymore. What advice would she give herself? Move on, go with the flow, reconnect with the things you love. But is her advice as obsolete as she seems to have become? Read to find out more!
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
The book was the co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, alongside Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. Painfully real depictions of being a woman, simply existing jolts you from the inside and makes you wonder about how much “progress” we have made living in the 21st century, facing centuries old issues of sexual crimes towards women. A must read for everyone out there.
Years later, Sarita still remembers her mother’s bitter words uttered when, as a little girl, she was unable to save her younger brother from drowning. Now, her mother is dead and Sarita returns to the family home, ostensibly to take care of her father, but in reality, it is to escape the nightmarish brutality her husband inflicts on her. In the quiet of her father’s company, Sarita reflects on the events of her life: her stultifying small town childhood, her domineering mother, her marriage to the charismatic young poet Manohar (who turned vicious when he realized his career was going nowhere and that his wife’s professional success was exceeding his own), her children…As she struggles with her emotions and anxieties, Sarita gradually realizes that there is more to life than dependency on marriage and family—she resolves to use her new found truths to make a better life for herself.
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