Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi

This is a story of a Gujarati Boy and a Welsh girl who meet, fall in love and get married. The novel is possibly inspired from her parent's story. It takes you through the life of Babo and Sian and how their love for each other shapes their future. The story is sweet and the characters are apt in every way. Each character is well defined, described and consistent. The novel flows smoothly throughout.

In terms of the writing style, it a touch different because Doshi has used 'smells' and 'fragrances' through the character of Ba, the grandmother, to describe the others. She has explored their feelings but not in the philosophical style, rather she has expressed raw emotion, stripped to the core, yet written in a poetic fashion. The use of Ba's character to string the whole novel together is the most beautiful part. I would say Ba is the Sutradhar as used in Gujarati Dramas. Doshi is a dancer and a poet which makes the way she describes emotions of her characters very unique. There is a flow to the writing like there would be in a poem or dance, its like she has not written but the book but choreographed it.