Second Thoughts by Shobhaa De is the story of a middle class family girl, Maya. Maya is young and beautiful. She desperately wants to leave her slow, middle-class home in Calcutta and start living into the fast and glamorous life of Bombay. She is married to Ranjan who is a handsome and ambitious man. When Maya starts living in Bombay, she tries her best to be the ideal wife but soon becomes isolated and feels trapped by the extreme conservative nature of her husband. Feeling dejected and lonely in the big city, she strikes up a friendship with Nikhil, who is her young, college-going neighbor. A tale of love, desire, betrayal and hypocrisy, read it for a light and engaging bittersweet love story.
