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The Body Myth (Hardcover, HAMISH HAMILTON) No rating

Thirty-two-year old Mira is a schoolteacher who has spent the last year coping with the …

I hadn't heard about Rheea Mukherjee before but happened to attend her session at the Bangalore Lit Fest and both the books she'd written so far sounded cool! This one's a romance novel but not quite; I don't usually read romance but recently got interested because I listened to an episode of Brooklyn Public Library's "Borrowed" which is all about them.

"The Body Myth" is (and I quote from the cover) about the fetishisation of illness but it's also generally about (I no longer quote) love and relationships in complicated situations.