The House of Hidden Mothers: A Novel

Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still young. But she has finally found happiness with Toby, a man ten years her junior. The two want to have a child together, but Shyama's doctor tells her that her womb has become "inhospitable." ("An inhospitable womb! There, she had been looking for a title for her autobiography.") So Shyama and Toby decide to find the perfect surrogate. Meanwhile, four thousand miles away in rural India, a young woman named Mala, who's married to an abusive older man, is convinced that acting as a surrogate for an international couple will be her ticket out of poverty. As Mala's life intersects with Shyama's, the two women soon discover that a simple arrangement may be far more complicated than it once seemed. Slyly profound and compulsively readable, The House of Hidden Mothers deftly mines a taboo industry to explore subjects of age, class, and the divide between East and West. - For readers of Akhil Sharma

• | Author: Meera Syal
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Jun 13, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1250132177
• | ISBN-13: 9781250132178