A Scandalous Secret (30 page)

Jaishree Misra is one of India's best-selling novelists, this being her seventh work of fiction. She completed an MA in English Literature from Kerala University before moving to England to study Special Education at the University of London. She has worked in special needs, child-care, radio journalism and as a film examiner at the British Board of Film Classification. In 2009, she moved to New Delhi, where she is helping develop a residential community for adults with learning disabilities.

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Secrets and Lies

Secrets and Sins

This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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A SCANDALOUS SECRET
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ISBN-13: 978-1-84756-186-2

EPub Edition © APRIL 2011 ISBN: 978-0-00-744320-8

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