Author:Karan Mahajan,Pal Aron

Mr Ahuja, Delhi's Minister of Urban Development, has too much on his hands: thirteen children and another on the way. All at sea among his sprawling, noisy brood he reaches out to Arjun, his eldest, and seemingly wisest, son. But Arjun has his own problems: how to tell the girl on the school bus that he's crazy about her?
This uproarious debut follows father and son as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of the megalopolis in a moving - and fast-moving - comic portrait of modern family life.
Vividly narrated...I believed in this engrossing story and felt my insides quake as Hana approached her inevitable fate
—— Jonathan Mirsky , THE SPECTATORCompelling, passionate, tragic
—— Marie ClairePowerful and affecting, crowded with the details of lives led and miseries inflicted
—— Sunday TimesThere are characters whose fate we care about, and a profoundly moving love story threaded between the tenacity of family and the monstrous grind of war. One that cries for you to linger over page by enthralling page
—— Simon Schama , Financial TimesGripping, moving
—— TLSStunning, gracefully written, altogether remarkable
—— LA TimesA sweeping epic, a good old-fashioned page-turner
—— Daily MailLawrence is elegant yet passionate and his imagery is second to none
—— Daily Express, Simon Shepherd's Six Best Books