![]() While she has exclusive meetings with these ladies, she finds out that they might be vulnerable victims of a man who is in charge of financial matters after the passing of their husband. ![]() She finds it strange that all his three wives who are behind purdah and in seclusion have signed off their inheritance to charity. ![]() When one of her father's wealthy Muslim clients passes away, she is entrusted with executing his paperwork. Now to the story, Parveen Mistry is the first woman solicitor in Bombay armed with an Oxford degree, she joins her father's law firm. This is a pleasant change to the stereotypical picture of poverty-stricken and tightly packed Bombay. ![]() Where people prided themselves on their education, lived in palatial bungalows, were wealthy enough to travel in imported cars, and to top it off, were a few of the handpicked Indian friends of the British government officials who sat at the same table. The book is set in 1920s Bombay, to be precise, the more privileged part of Bombay- the residents of Malabar Hill and the Parsi community. ![]()
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