India, May 25 -- A precocious 10-year-old, a fractured family, a woman adamant on breaking her shackles, an emotionally distant but present father, a magical forest, a Pandora's box of lessons - in her third novel, author Lopa Ghosh manages to explore all these and more with profound thematic depth within a narrative set in Delhi.

At first glimpse, the reader is enchanted by the seemingly uncomplicated world of a child, where wonder and curiosity colour in the gaping holes of adult evasion and silences. But alongside Narois, the protagonist, the reader is also catapulted into a colourful world of 'Motherless Mondays' as lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur. Soon, the murkiness of adult actualities - grief, betrayal, loneliness...