Ladies Coupe A Novel in Parts Author:Anita Nair Meet Akhilandeswari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari, gloriously alone for the first time in her life and determined to break free of all that her conservative Tamil brahmin... more » life has bound her to. The story of a woman's search for strength and independence.« less