num_pages: 320
description: Meet forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women the question that has been haunting her all her adult can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with hunsbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same world over.
language: English
title: Ladies Coupe
titlecomplete: Ladies Coupe
genres: Asian Literature, Feminism, Indian Literature, India, Asia, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 6115
places: India
publisher: CHATTO WINDUS