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  Chiki Sarkar

  And Justin McCarthy for permission to use his name.

  The lines quoted on pages 228–9 are from the poem ‘Vitaï Lampada’ by Sir Henry Newbolt.

  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  Manju Kapur is the bestselling author of four novels, Difficult Daughters (winner of the Commonwealth Prize, Eurasia), A Married Woman and Home (shortlisted for the Hutch Crossword Prize for fiction), and The Immigrant (shortlisted for the DSC Prize). She lives in New Delhi.