Cassie McCullagh

I won't try to massacre that language with my pronunciation.

But this child who has never eaten fish in a household that doesn't have any animal products in it, not one drop of milk, not one... Egg.

Egg, nothing.

Suddenly, not only demanding that she wants fish, she wants to eat it right now.

She goes on a hunger strike.

Yes, because initially the finger gets pointed at her Bengali maid who looks after her, her substitute mother.

But no, she, it seems, has experienced fish and she appears to be the reincarnation of somebody else.

So...

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.