Cassie McCullagh

What happens next?

Luckily, there is a pediatrician who lives very nearby and his wife is a psychologist who turns out has a speciality in reincarnation.

And so this is how Monty Bose and his wife Shoma enter the story.

And then we learn about their household as well.

So that's the beginning chapter.

Then we flip to Kolkata.

We are in 2020 as the pandemic has just broken out.

We have the narrator who is a member of the Bose family, of the paediatrician and the psychologist, and he becomes the person who takes us through the narrative from there on, although it's alternating in time between 1969 and

and 2020.

No, his mother was loving, but he has a special connection to Shoma.

Somehow, she, who was unable to have children, is more of a spiritual mother to him, and he feels very loved and secure in this household, which is called Tavoi, which is named to... It's a place in Burma where Monty Bose's father had served in a war with the Japanese, so...

You know, it's a fantastically evoked household as well as that first one, the Guptas that we met.

Well, Dev was my favourite of the secondary characters.

He turned up at Tavoy on foot when he was 14, carrying postcards that Monty's father had written to his father.

His father had died, his mother more recently had died, and the last thing she did from her deathbed was give him these postcards and said, go to this Monty man, he will look after you.

So he walked from Burma to California.

Calcutta and turns up on the doorstep and then becomes an integral part of the household.

He lives on the roof of Tavoi where a mango tree grows and there's a little shack underneath this mango tree which forever is producing the most golden, gorgeous, delicious mangoes.

until an incident occurs and it stops.

But Dev is all seeing, all knowing, but very, very low key as a servant, but a member of the family as well.