When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London's close-knit Punjabi community.īecause of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her 20-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages - a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.
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She gets angry at him tells him it's over goes back to Noah and tells him the truth. The other guy comes and professes his love saying it was not a mistake, he wants her back and kisses her. Then she meets Noah who was the biggest sweetheart, like literally he was so thoughful, patient, swoonworthy the perfect book bf and the only reason for my 2 star rating□□ they start as friends and then they fall in love. They have sex and then he says it was a mistake and leaves her. She's in love with her brother's best friend. It's bc the h's first in love with one guy whose name is CHASE and then falls in love with the H whose name is NOAH. I kept reading reviews and wondering why i can't find the H's name and when i got past the first 10 chapters i realized why is that. Since i haven't read one review mentioning this, let me tell you the premise of the story is in fact a FREAKING LOVE TRIANGLE. 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