The Bollywood Bride

Sonali Dev has catapulted onto my ‘must-read, auto-buy' list of authors.

The emotional journey of her characters keep me turning pages at a rapid rate.
Wish she'd hurry up and write her next book!

4.5 stars

So, I've recently finished Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, and then found myself quibbling at traumatized characters in fiction who were not acting traumatized like the people described in psychologist van der Kolk's book. Not so with the Bollywood bride, which I'll give 4 1/2 stars because, despite some plausibility gaps that bothered me a tiny bit, I found the depiction of trauma in the main character utterly believable, and was there with her for her journey toward wholeness, supported by realistically-reacting people who loved her in a real way.
(But I still don't get the title. I mean, she's not the bride.)