Witness the night
By: Kishwar Desai
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Costa Book award
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781471259883
Subjects: Abused children; Fiction; Women social workers; Girls; Crimes against
Description: In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but she has been beaten and abused. She is held in the local prison, awaiting interrogation for the murders she is believed by the local people to have committed. But an unconventional social worker, Simran Singh, is convinced of her innocence. As she begins to examine the circumstances around the case, she encounters a terrifying web of prejudice and deceit in which lives of women are endangered from birth.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Beautiful Books Ltd, 2010.

2010, Costa First Novel Award.