The Girl in the Greenroom

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Arrestingly original, genuinely thought-provoking and deeply entertaining, this book should be on the reading list of anybody who wants to understand where we are today and why? It begins with the story of a tutor and his beautiful student. But their deeply passionate affair goes through a sudden storm with the discovery of a mysterious something in his house. It is the consequences of each of their journeys and the ends they eventually meet through turmoil of their once peaceful society- a mass student agitation, stage illusions, a massacre, a series of secret killings, family mysteries and personal suspense… A stunning teenage girl is lured into the strange world of stage illusions only to be turned into a lifelong exile. A tea planter’s dancer wife saves the rest of the family in the most wretched of circumstances while falling herself prey to an atrocious state… A young woman escapes to Burma through dangerous tropical jungles and then in her secluded life with no money in hand, she isn’t expecting to cross paths with her brother as his best friend helped her to escape to safety from her potentially lethal father. Deemed an enemy of her country, she can never return to India. Through her craft, she begins to shock and delight audiences. Soon she is feted as the most enigmatic woman in the region. But she makes the gravest mistake of her life and it brings her under constant scanner of Indian spies. On this adventurous journey, we meet and see- a stunning ethnic Bihu dancer, a students’ bash in London, a tribal insurgent commander’s lifestyle, an Afghan training camp, a brilliant diplomat, an eccentric American woman, a ninety-eight-year-old British painter and her canvas and a daring pilot. THE GIRL IN THE GREENROOM tells us the unforgettable story of not one, not two, but quite a few people who dared to break the conventions of their times and eventually paid the price to return to their dreams. It is a provocative account of love, friendship, courage, loss and a sophisticated modern warfare called “Terrorism”.

-Geoffrey Horne