Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy

Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.

Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and important story about family and partitions and love.

Vikram Chandra