THE WEIGHT LOSS CLUB

Set in a middle-class housing
colony, this is the story of stay-at-home mum Monalisa, who cannot clean the
kitchen counter enough times, Meera, who is bullied constantly by her
traditional mother-in-law, college-going Abeer, who isn’t sure how to impress
the glamorous Mandy, academic Aparajita, who has no takers on the marriage
mart, philosopher Ananda, whom no one takes seriously and Treeza, a former
school secretary now sunk in gloom. Into their midst arrives Oxford-returned
Sandhya – half hippie, half saadhvi, full spiritual guru. Under her aegis is
formed The Weight Loss Club, throwing the lives of our heroes and heroines
into utter and delightful disarray. But while chemistry brews and equations
change, one question remains who is Brahmacharini Sandhya and why on earth
has she moved into Nancy Housing Cooperative? Key Features A brilliantly
written novel with an engaging storyline that focuses on the shedding of
‘excess baggage’ both physical and emotional this book will appeal to all
readers of commercial fiction, especially women With engaging and loveable
characters ranging from college students to housewives to well-settled
professionals, The Weight Loss Club will be of interest to readers between
the ages of twenty-five and forty-five The book, despite being highly
readable commercial fiction, touches on issues affecting people everywhere
marital problems, post-partum depression, difficult relatives, surviving
illnesses, natural healing, etc The Weight Loss Club is one of Rupa’s lead
commercial fiction titles of the year and will have considerable marketing
support behind it Devapriya Roy’s previous book was very successful and made
it to several bestsellers lists across the country