A woman lost and found and lost again . . . Born in a world that was unfair to women, Mannu Bhandari, grew up to be a sensitive, fiery and outspoken writer. Little did she realize though, that getting married to a man from her own field would prove to be the death of her own writing for the next decade. In this very straightforward and open autobiography, Mannu Bhandari presents the other side of the household that she and Rajender Yadav occupied. She talks about how she drew her characters from her life and how difficult this seemingly simplicity of writing was. Deeply hurt by her husband Mannu lays bare the fault lines of her very controversial marriage and her dilemmas and struggles?of being together and yet completely alone. With rare, candid ease and sentimentality, she takes the reader through her life, revealing her writing genius and claiming her rightful position as one of the best writers in Hindi literature.