Mostly Normal is a book of innocence, longing, filial love, angst and acceptance, encapsulating a gamut of human emotions within its lightweight edifice. The book touches the human heart and will stay with you.

My MIL has always bullied me. After my FIL’s demise, naturally her trips to our place have increased. I understand her need to get emotional support from her son. But I am not able to adjust.

There were no secrets between my mother and me. After coming home from school, an hour was reserved for the two of us. It was our time.

It is essential to put out our stories where women are not pitted against each other; instead, they hold each other up and celebrate each other. Here is mine.

Neglected and bullied in childhood, and now being pressurised to get married as a grown woman, the pain of it all can become too much to take.