India, 1922 Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new womens hospital specialising in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches firebut a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harms way. Later, Perveen learns that Sunanda, whos still ailing from her burns, has been arrested on trumpedup charges made by a man who doesnt seem to exist. Perveen cannot stand by while Sunanda languishes in jail with no hope of justice. She takes Sunanda as a client, even inviting her to live at the Mistry home in Bombays Dadar Parsi colony. But the joint family household is already full of tension. Perveens father worries about their law firm taking so much personal responsibility for a client, and her brother and sisterinlaw are struggling to cope with their new baby. Perveen herself is going through personal turmoil as she navigates a taboo relationship with a handsome former civil service officer. When the hospitals chief donor dies suddenly, Miriam Penkar, a JewishIndian obstetrician, and Sunanda become suspects. Perveens original case spirals into a complex investigation taking her into the Gujarati strongholds of Kalbadevi and Ghatkopar, and up the coast to Juhu Beach, where a decadent nawab lives with...

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