Author - Jaishree Misra

Jaishree Misra has written eight novels published by Penguin and Harper Collins and has also edited an anthology of writings on motherhood, published by Zubaan, as a fund-raising campaign for Save the Children India. Her first novel, 'Ancient Promises' was commissioned by Penguin UK and went on to become a best-seller; film rights have been recently sold. It is now a prescribed text for the BA Course in English Literature in Kerala University. Her versatility showed up in her second novel, 'Accidents Like Love & Marriage', a comedy of manners, while the third book, 'Afterwards' is a moving story told from the point-of-view of a young man who loses his wife. Jaishree's fourth novel was a big historical romance called 'Rani' which was inspired by the story of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi. Subsequent to that, Jaishree was commissioned by Harper Collins in the UK to write a series of commercial fiction books featuring glamorous locations and characters. The three books that emerged were 'Secrets & Lies' which celebrates female friendship, 'Secrets & Sins' which studies infidelity and 'A Scandalous Secret'which features an adopted girl who travels to India in search of her biological mother. Jaishree's most recent novel, 'A Love Story for My Sister', is part-commercial and part-historical, telling the twin stories of Margaret Wheeler, a real character from the 1857 uprising in Kanpur, and Tara Fernandez, a Delhi schoolgirl, both of whom were kidnapped but went on to live with their captors. Jaishree has an MA in English Literature from Kerala University and two post-graduate diplomas from the University of London, in Special Education and Broadcast Journalism. Until recently she worked at the British Board of Film Classification in London. She currently lives in Kerala. To know more about her, visit her website www.jaishreemisra.com

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