EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON
By Kavita Daswani
Published in paperback (5 July 2004)
By Harper Collins
304 pages
ISBN 0007160631
Guide Price: £6.99

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Priya, growing up in a comfortable home in Delhi, is the youngest of four sisters, but the first for whom a marriage has been arranged - the other sisters all seem to have a variety of reasons against husbands. Priya moves to Los Angeles where her new family have been established for some twenty years and while no woman in her family has ever has a job, she decides that in American she should find one. And that's when the trouble really begins.

Her charm and dignity, as well as her discretion and sympathetic ways, raise from from a receptionist to key interviewer on a glitzy media magazine in a short time. She knows that while a little job is OK with her in-laws, a career, western clothes and interviewing male stars in hotel rooms would be absolutely forbidden. So her double life - American career women versus traditional Hindu wife - begins, and her longing for a different relationship with her husband grows.

Funny and serious, full of rich comments on the pleasures and absurdities of lifestyles in East and West, this is a cracking contemporary novel from a unique author.

'Everything Happens for a Reason' is published on 5 July 2004

ABOUT KAVITA DASWANI

Kavita Daswani is a fashion journalist who lives in California with her husband and their young son. She spent five years as the fashion editor for the South China Morning Post and was the fashion correspondent for CNN and for CNBC in Asia.

Also by Kavita Daswani - 'For Matrimonial Purposes'.

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