Hottest Day Of The Year

Her parents away on business, eleven-year-old Nithya spends six sultry months in small-town Tamil Nadu with her unmarried uncle and widowed aunt. Battling sheer boredom, stupefying heat and nosy neighbours, she befriends the family’s pretty servant, Sudha.

As she tells Sudha’s story in an exquisitely rendered voice, Nithya emerges as an extraordinary girl in her own right. By turn lyrical, tragic and redemptive, The Hottest Day of the Year introduces Brinda Charry as an exciting new literary voice.

· Brilliant first novel.

· Brinda Charry has won the Katha Award for Creative Fiction and prizes in the Asian Age Short Story Competition, the Hindu-Picador Short Story Competition and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Competition.