Authors: Dipika Rai

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Someone Else’s Garden
is divided into four parts – The Sky is for Dreaming, Monsoon Darkness, Love is a River, The Smell of Wet Earth. What do you think the author has achieved by structuring the novel in this way? Is this an effective technique?

About the Author

DIPIKA RAI
was born and raised in New Delhi. She was educated in one of India’s most prestigious boarding schools in the foothills of the Himalayas and then went on to do an MBA before going into banking. After a career change, she worked as a journalist for many years, writing for publications including
Vogue India
and
Marie Claire
. She now divides her time between India and the island of Bali where she lives with her husband and two children. This is her first novel.

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A portion of the royalties from the sale of this book is donated to Pratham, the largest non-governmental organization in India working to provide quality education to under-privileged children. www.pratham.org

Th is book is a work of fiction. Th e characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

SOMEONE ELSE’S GARDEN.
Copyright © 2011 by Dipika Rai. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-0-06-200035-4

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