Two weeks of oil treatments and silence at a Kerala retreat stop feeling restorative the moment the narrator's ex-husband checks in with his new wife.
Twinkle Khanna builds the novel around that awkward proximity, using the routines of the retreat as a setting for conversations about marriage, appetite, ageing and the stories people tell themselves after a divorce. The comedy is dry and observational, and it sits comfortably beside the more reflective passages rather than undercutting them.
Reasons readers pick it up:
• A wellness retreat in Kerala used as a comic setting
• Sharp writing about divorce, self-image and second chances
• Character-led fiction rather than plot-twist storytelling
• Humour and reflection balanced across a short novel
Well matched to readers of contemporary Indian fiction and wry book-club novels, available in English at Boipoka.
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