- Jaishree Misra
Jaishree Mishra was born in 1961 and grow up in India, moving to England
in 1993. She has worked in the field of special needs in India and in the
Department of social services in Buckinghamshire, England. She worked as a
Broadcast journalist with the BBC. Ancient Promises is her first novel. It is a
semi autobiographical book, which is very interesting to read.
The novel begins with a sorrowful note, saying
"My marriage ended today
without the lighting
of
oil lamps and the beating of temple drums,
but in a cramped little
divorce court.
In the next chapter, the novelist has given
the past of the heroine. Janaki, her school life and wedding.
Janaki, shortly called Janu, was a Malayali
girl,
