Hackney Libraries in conversation with Vedashree Khambete-Sharma

Join author Vedashree Khambete-Sharma in discussion of her book What Will People Think?

To celebrate the opening of South Asian Heritage Month 2024, Hackney Libraries in association with Atlantic Books present In conversation with Vedashree Khambete-Sharma.

For this exclusive event, Khambete-Sharma will be discussing her writing process including a reading from her upcoming book What Will People Think?, published by Atlantic Books. A warm and witty novel about community, family and love – as if Jane Austen wrote about 1970s Bombay.

Detailing life in the Vile Parle district of Mumbai, a bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class, Ila Bendre's mother is determined to get her four daughters married off as soon as possible.

As we follow the Bendre sisters from dinners to parties to weddings, from Vile Parle to Pune, will love eventually conquer all in this ingeniously witty and charming tale of pride, prejudice and puran polis?

Vedashree Khambete-Sharma works as an Executive Creative Director in one of Mumbai's oldest advertising agencies and in the course of her 18-year copywriting career, she has won both Indian and international awards for her work, including a Cannes Lion. What Will People Think? is her fifth novel and first literary romance.

Please note: after booking, a Zoom link will be sent to you a few days before the event.