Custody (45 page)

My writers’ group, Janet Chawla, Gopika Nath, Amy Kazmin, Sujatha Mathai, Mala Bhagat Bali, Anuradha Marwah, Padmini Mongia and Charty Dugdale

Thanks to my agent,

Ayesha Karim

My editors,

And Justin McCarthy for permission to use his name.

The lines quoted on pages
228
–
9
are from the poem ‘Vitaï Lampada’ by Sir Henry Newbolt.
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A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Manju Kapur is the bestselling author of four novels,
Difficult Daughters
(winner of the Commonwealth Prize, Eurasia),
A Married Woman
and
Home
(shortlisted for the Hutch Crossword Prize for fiction), and
The Immigrant
(shortlisted for the DSC Prize). She lives in New Delhi.
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