Missy av Raghav Rao

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<p><strong>Meet <em>Missy</em>, the extraordinary, dazzling, must-read debut of 2024, with a main character who will capture your heart</strong></p><p><strong>She¿s chosen her own future.</strong></p><p>Madras, India: The orphaned girls of St Ursula¿s convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with languages, she¿s taken on as governess for the wealthy Nandiyar family at their country estate.</p><p>The horrific events of a single night force Savi and her love, Ananda, into a dangerous journey, re-emerging in America under new identities, their homeland forever in their rearview.</p><p><strong>But the past is never far away.</strong></p><p>Forty years later, Savi, known to all as Missy, is the embodiment of the American dream ¿ successful business owner in Chicago, pillar of the South Asian community, and mother to two brilliant, stubborn young women, Mansi and Shilpa.</p><p>Until Varun, a charming doctor, enters their