Publisher's Synopsis
"Her tale is light enough to relieve the tedium of a long journey and yet filled with the incantatory power to burn up the tracks, to seek a new destination. To change." - INDIA TODAY Akhila is forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari at the southernmost tip of India. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the women she is travelling with the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?
