The Girl Who Couldn't Love: A Novel

By Shinie Antony

An introverted, middle-aged spinster, Roo, or Rudrakshi Sen, lives with her mother and teaches English at a local school. Roo’s mother, semi-blind and a chronic invalid, lives most of the time in an imaginary world where she turns the grief of her husband’s death and their bizarre relationship into the belief that theirs was a happy,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
• Release date: Oct 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9789386702289

Shinie Antony

'Shinie Antony' has written the short story collections, 'The Orphanage for Words' and 'Barefoot and Pregnant', and the novels, 'When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied' and 'A Kingdom for His Love'. She has compiled the anthology, 'Why We Don't Talk'. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, she won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2003 for her story 'A Dog's Death'.