A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women\'s lives at all ages--a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.
As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community\'s "moral police." But when the widows\' gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife--a modern woman like Nikki--and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all..
Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected--and exciting--kind.
When one of the Widows finds a book of sexy Stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories.
Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh Widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing.
When her father\'s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London\'s close-knit Punjabi community.
The daughter of Indian immigrants, she\'s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. .
Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. .
Every woman has a secret life .
A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women\'s lives at all ages--a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls
