The release date for the English version of 'Secret Daughter' by
Shilpi Somaya Gowda is Mar 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Somer's life is going just as she had hoped; she recently got married and is beginning her medical career in San Francisco. However, she soon learns the heartbreaking truth that she will never be able to conceive.
In India that same year, a destitute woman decides to give her newborn daughter away in order to preserve her life. It is a sad decision. Kavita's choice will have a lasting impact on her life and send ripples all the way across the globe and back again.
The infant Asha, who was adopted from an orphanage in Mumbai, is the one who connects these two women's stories. We follow the two families until they become hardly noticeable until Asha returns to India on her path of self-discovery.
SECRET DAUGHTER is a very readable and poignant tale about the unanticipated effects of our families and choices on our lives, as well as the enduring power of love in all of its manifestations.