‘Those Delicious Letters’ by Bestselling Author of Bong Mom’s Cookbook, Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta

About the Book

Soon after her fortieth birthday, Shubha starts receiving monthly letters with traditional Bengali recipes from a mysterious lady in Calcutta claiming to be her grandmother. Drawn by the nostalgia in the letters and lured into the delicious world of forgotten food, Shubha starts experimenting with the recipes. Even as secrets are revealed and her own life unravels, the letters give her courage to take a second chance at life. Torn between the taste of success that the letters eventually bring her and her need to save her marriage, Shubha must find the perfect recipe for love.

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‘A mouth-watering story about food, family and a second chance at finding yourself. The book is a rich tapestry of rediscovering love and family while straddling two continents, peppered with humor, colorful characters and lip-smacking food!’- Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta

 

‘After the success of Bong Mom’s Cookbook, which is bound to remain a steady title on every food lover’s cookbook shelf for a long time, Sandeepa has returned with a truly delectable new novel that will make you want to curl up on the sofa and rush into the kitchen at the same time. This is a heartwarming, entertaining story about a woman who rediscovers the Bengali cuisine of her heritage even as she discovers new things about herself, her family and her life.’– Kanishka Gupta, Literary Agent

 

‘A book that, in all its gentle, delicate nostalgia made me want to return to a world that I know is long gone. A story told through the sweetest letters and the most familiar and delicious collection of recipes; Sandeepa’s debut fiction is a story about family and identity, food and love. It is exactly the kind of warm, cheery book that we need so much right now.’ – Swati Daftuar, Senior Commissioning Editor, HarperCollins India

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About the Author

Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta is Bong Mom, the nom de plume behind the very popular blog ‘Bong Mom’s Cookbook’. She has been entertaining her readers with food and stories for over ten years and is the go-to source for Bengali cooking on the web. An engineer by profession, she lives with her family in New Jersey, USA.

 

For further information, please write to- sagiri.dixit@harpercollins.co.in

Fiction | Rs 299 | 296 pages