I Am Queen: A story of life as we don't know

This story weaves multiple destinies and spans 60 years, from 1946 Pre-Independence India to 2006 present day England. KATTITHANGAM'S entire world is a remote village in Thirunelvelli, Tamil Nadu, India. She spends her days forgotten and paralyzed, writing into her journals the stories that make up her life. There are some remarkable people in her narrative: Kuttipillai - her childhood best friend, Sister Amma - an English missionary nun, Sr. Michael, Baby Selvam - her nephew.Her life has been defined by two major events.The first one, she calls 'THAT AFTERNOON' - when a case of mistaken identity marks a violent end to her relationship with her childhood best-friend, Kuttipillai.The second, she calls 'THAT NIGHT' - a fateful night when she is physically and sexually abused by her husband and loses her unborn child. She writes down her unique perspective on life, with childlike certainty, na?ve fearlessness, blind clarity and dark humor. When she dies, these journals get passed on to Sr. Michael. Sr. Michael, mildly bankrupt of ideas on what to do with these journals, gifts them to Dr. MARTIN SHAW - a widower and a defector from the British Government, who was looking for redemption, and finds it in Mahatma Gandhi's friendship and philosophy. He starts a life in Madras, starts a Medical Institution and becomes a legend in his own right. He dies in 1986, leaving his earthly effects - which include these journals - to his only known relative in England. This relative is a shiftless young man called WILL BAXTER. In 2006, he is an out-of-work chef, living in a house-share, in Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire, with a young Indian doctor called ANNE. In a brazen mood, fueled by alcohol, he wagers his inheritance - which he deems worthless - to Anne, and she playfully accepts and wins. It is only while going through this box of memorabilia - notebooks, letters, photographs, journals - that Anne discovers that she is the descendant of Kattithangam - Kattithangam being her beloved grandfather's (Baby Selvam's) aunt. The discovery of her grandaunt's journals give Anne the answers to the questions she didn't know she'd been asking herself, and fuels her decision to finally come home ..... in the truest sense of the word.

Author: Edel Devanesan

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: 44031

Number of Pages: 298 pages

Binding: Fiction

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ISBN-13: 9798667617693