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The Sea of Innocence Hardcover – 1 June 2013

by Kishwar Desai (Author)

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Goa, south India. A beautiful paradise where hippies and backpackers wile away the hours. But beneath the clear blue skies lies a dirty secret. And when the body of a young girl is discovered on the beach, no one seems to have any information about what happened to her. But, beneath the silence, people know the truth, but are scared to admit it. Then the feisty social worker, Simran Singh, stumbles across the story, and is determined to get to the truth, no matter what.

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368 pages
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English
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Simon & Schuster UK
Publication date

1 June 2013
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16.31 x 3.3 x 24.41 cm
ISBN-10

1471101428
ISBN-13

978-1471101427
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About the Author

Kishwar Desai is an author and journalist. She splits her time between Delhi, Goa and London. Follow her on twitter @kishwardesai

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster UK; UK ed. edition (1 June 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1471101428
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1471101427
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.31 x 3.3 x 24.41 cm

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mary C. Irving

Interesting but clunky

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2013

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I bought this because I was interested in the author's feminist stance. It has constant references to the recent notorious Mumbai rape and murder of a young woman and the murder of Scarlett Keeling in Goa. The book is intensely critical of male political and sexual dominance.
Getting a bit restless? Well that's the book's main problem - it moves uneasily between fact and fiction and the fiction has to stretch so far to accommodate this that at times it becomes difficult to believe. Having said that I found it to be a page turner as I just had to find out what was going on and how it would all end.
So it did fulfil one important requirement of the detective novel and I found its overtly feminist viewpoint pleasing.

Sally

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2013

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An Indian crime series is an intriguing and original idea so I was looking forward to this. Especially as this one, the third in the series, deals with sexism, sex crimes, grooming girls in Goa and with reference to the awful murder in Delhi last year. But I found it just a bit flippant and unconvincing, and really didn't much like or believe in the central character who solves crimes without being in the police. This is a common device, but not used well. And the language and prose style is rather basic. Sad, as Kishwar's mother Anita is a first rate novelist.

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Clare Vickers

Shocking as a revelation of truth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2013

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As a novel it leaves much to be desired: storylines are either obvious or signposted too enthusiastically. But it's an important subject and reveals a shocking truth about women in India .. I lived there as a young woman in the 1970s and although there was eve-teasing and undoubtedly some very nasty things going on beneath the surface, it was very much the exception.

Mrs. Gillian Reckitt

I heard Kishwar Desai talking about this book at Hay on Wye.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2013

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Excellent - now will buy some more of her books. Because of hearing Kishwar talking about her book, I bought it and LOVED it - exciting, well read and a very different angle on a private detective. I am going to suggest that my book group reads one of her books next month.

maggie-the-librarian

We've had Scandicrime. Time for Indicrime?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2013

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I'd heard the author interviewed on Woman's Hour and thought the book sounded interesting but it did not live up to its promise. I didn't get to know or care about the characters. Perhaps I should have read all the Simran Singh books in order. I certainly don't feel tempted to read them now.

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