Aftertaste by Namita Devidayal

In her bestselling novel “Aftertaste” (over 5000 hardback copies sold), Namita Devidayal provides a captivating account of a baniya family settled in punjab headed by a matriarch, mummyji, who is in hospital after a stroke. The Todarmal family, glued together by money not love, includes the weak and emasculated Rajan papa who is desperately in need of cash; Sunny, the dynamic head of the business with an ugly marriage and a demanding mistress; Suman,the spoilt and greedy beauty of the family who is determined to get her hands on mummyji’s best jewels; and Saroj, Suman’s unlucky sister, who has always lived in her shadow. Each one of them wants mummyji to die.