Inspiration for author and WM subscriber Vasundra Tailor’s debut novel, The Secret of Elephants (Lake Union Publishers, September 2022), came following a visit to India in 2016. The trip included a visit with her sister to see a mansion built by her father in Navsari in 1954.
‘He was immensely proud of it,’ Vasundra recalls, ‘but after 62 years, it was in a very dilapidated state. We were sad to see it like that. A lovely family invited us in when we explained our connection, and seeing