This definitive edition brings together all the short stories Gajra Kottary has written in one comprehensive volume.A keen observer of the minutiae of everyday life, she infuses these stories with an uncanny understanding of the feminine psyche in the three sections the stories are divided into – the complicated aspects of a woman’s relationship with a man, the shades of grey that mark interactions between women, and the self-reflective bond a woman has with her own self. Always engaging and heartfelt, delightfully unpredictable, often laced with a sense of wicked humour, these 50 stories provide a fascinating portrait of urban women and their predicaments in contemporary India and an insight into the work of one of the country’s finest authors writing in English.