Betrayal

(Penguin Petit)

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Maya and Angie may have been best friends since boarding school but they are far from equals. Maya, a child of divorce, has always been a little too wordly for the innocent Angie, something that is evident to anyone who see them interact. Things, however, take a strange turn when Maya discovers she’s pregnant with her ex-boyfriend Nick’s baby. Before she knows it, Angie has become a messenger between the two disgruntled ‘adults’, although in trying to resolve things as best as possible she is simply getting entangled in the mess further.

Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer who never shies away from exploring the greyest of grey in her characters, whether it is through Maya’s attitude towards her father’s questionable actions or Nick’s controversial theories about consent.

Based on a real incident involving Padmanabhan’s friend, Betrayal does an excellent job of holding a mirror to the darkness within us, forcing us to confront it at once.