- Second Thoughts (book)
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name = Second Thoughts
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image_caption = Second Thoughts
author =Shobha De
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country =India
language = English
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genre =Novel
publisher =Penguin Books
release_date = 1996
media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = 296
isbn = ISBN 0140255672
preceded_by =Small Betrayals
followed_by =Selective Memory Second Thoughts is a
novel written byShobhaa De ."Second Thoughts" is a love story about Maya, a pretty girl who is eager to escape her dull, middle-class home in
Calcutta for the glamour ofMumbai , where she moves after marriage to Ranjan, a handsome, ambitious man who has an American university degree and a wealthy family background.Maya is determined to be the ideal wife, but finds herself trapped and stifled by the confines of an arranged marriage to a man who, she discovers, is rigidly conservative and completely indifferent to her desires. She begins to experience the utter loneliness of a stranger in suburban Mumbai.
She strikes up a friendship with Nikhil, her charming, college-going neighbor, and the stage is set for an explosive tale of love, betrayal and paths not taken.
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