Leela's Book Coronet Despised by both pupils and

Despised by both pupils and peers

and naturally

Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence

A collection of five Wexford cases

whose first-hand accounts and memoirs provide the colour

Leela's Book Coronet Despised by both pupils andLeela alluring, taciturn, haunted is moving back to Delhi from New York. She knows her return will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty two years ago her sister was seduced by Vyasa, a young university lecturer. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for the unlikely marriage of his son, Ash, to the child of a Hindu nationalist. Compounding Leela's disruptive presence, Ash's hedonistic twin sister Bharati arrives from London,