The Good Children - Hardcover

Farooki, Roopa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755383427 ISBN 13: 9780755383429

Publisher: Tinder Press, 2014

Synopsis

Leaving Home is one thing. Surviving is quite another.



1940s Pakistan, two brothers and their two younger sisters are brought up and moulded in the traditional way, to be 'Good Children'.



Desperate to escape their beautiful but manipulative mother, the boys leave to be educated abroad, abandoning their sisters to their mother and her plans for their arranged marriages. Overseas, one brother falls in love with a suitable Indian girl, the other with an unsuitable white man, thereby shaking the shackles of his upbringing for good. Their sisters refuse to remain trophy wives, and disgrace the family while they strike out to build their own lives. As they raise their own families, and return to bury the dead, the 'good children' realise the tragic consequences of dishnour and disobedience, and learn how hard it is to leave the lessons of home behind.

About this title

About the Author

Roopa Farooki was born in Lahore in Pakistan and brought up in London. She graduated from New College, Oxford and worked in advertising before turning to write fiction. Roopa now lives in south-east England and south-west France with her husband, twin girls and two sons. Bitter Sweets, her first novel, was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writers 2007. Roopa`s novels have been published internationally and translated into a dozen languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755383427
• ISBN 13: 9780755383429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352