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Book Review : Moving On

By Shashi Deshpande

When I started the book I was a little surprised to find that the narrator was male. After all it was a Shashi Deshpande novel and should by all previous samples have a woman at the heart of the story. As I reached the second chapter, she ran true to form. It was a woman who had discovered the diaries that her critically ill father had kept. It was her life story with a lot of colorful people and circumstances thrown in.

A sheltered and happy childhood, a romantic fling which the mother disapproved of , turning into marriage. A set of complications arising from a sister’s illness and a husband’s inability to provide for his wife leading to infidelity and betrayal in the woman’s past. The present also had some very real and physical dangers present which are dealt with in the best way possible. The story of a family as it weaves its path through the years and becomes closer knit than it was after undergoing tribulations that could have split it wide open. A shade better than an MB and a couple of shades less than a classic is how I would describe it. Almost Indian Daniel Steel. I quite enjoyed it.