About the Book: A Place Called Home
At 14, all Alka has known is Mrs Shettys home, the home her own mother, her
Aayi, cleans and dusts every day. The home that Alka lives in, but cant call her
own. The servants room she shares with Aayi is small and cramped, and Alka
yearns to escape. At least the otherwise cruel Mrs Shetty has given Alka a way
to do just that, by sending her to the same school her own daughter, Tanvi,
attends. Alka, encouraged by her mother, studies hard and finds a way to leave
her past behind, moulding herself in a new