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#BookReview: Tell Tale by Jeffrey Archer

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Title: Tell Tale Author: Jeffrey Archer Publisher: Pan Macmillan India Published on: October 2017 Binding: Paperback Pages: 288 ISBN: 9781509867767 BLURB Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930’s woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than

#BookReview : The Ghosts Of Gurugram by Debeshi Gooptu

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Title: The Ghosts Of Gurugram Author: Debeshi Gooptu Pages: 150 Format: Kindle edition BLURB   When twenty-six-year-old Tara Chatterjee moves to Gurgaon to make a fresh start after a painful breakup, she finds herself in the middle of a peculiar situation. Her new home is inhabited by a ghost, a woman only she can see! Who is this woman and why does she keep appearing in front of Tara with her motley crew of friends? Will Tara be able to make sense of the chaos in her own life and unravel the secret of her haunted apartment? COVER PAGE The cover page of the book is very interesting having a blue background and is very colourful. It is very apt to the story and is eye catchy.  REVIEW  The Ghosts Of Gurugram by Debeshi Gooptu is a very interesting read. The blurb made me pick up this book. Reading this book was a roller coaster ride, so many ups and downs of emotions.  It is written in a simple language and is flowing like a fluid and I loved author's

#BookReview : A Home For Urvashi by Sanchali Bhattacharya

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Title: A Home For Urvashi  Author: Sanchali Bhattacharya  Publisher: HarperCollins India Published On: 15th October 2017  Pages: 352 Binding: Paperback  ISBN: 978-9352773541 " I died the day I was born." BLURB Death separates Dulari from her beloved twin sister, Ujjwala. Forlorn, her spirit remains on Earth as a powerless but constant companion to Ujjwala. Like the apsara Urvashi, she has the power to travel between worlds but no family, no one to love. Dulari has a dream: she hopes to be reborn as Ujjwala s daughter and find a home for herself. Twenty-nine years have gone by, but her dream remains unfulfilled. There is hope, though, for Ujjwala has a son and now longs for a daughter. Then arrives a man from Ujjwala s past. His presence upsets her life and sets into motion a series of events that threaten to destroy her completely. Only Dulari can save her sister, but to do that, she must relinquish her dream. Will Dulari intervene and prote