Seasons of Friendship by Perveen Nadirshaw Tayabali. Published in 2023 by the author, 14, Hauxton Road, Little Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5HJ, United Kingdom. Pp: 253. Price: Not mentioned.
Perveen Nadirshaw Tayabali’s (pictured) debut novel Seasons of Friendship is set in Bombay and deals with two families bound together by strong threads of friendship. In her novel, Cambridge-based painter Tayabali traces the relationship between the members of these families over a period of nearly 40 years. The children grow, marry, procreate; Tayabali skillfully weaves these friendships with their ups and downs, their laughter and tears, falling in and out of love. As......