In debt thanks to her pursuit of higher education, she lives at home and teaches as a substitute within the Toronto school system, helping to support her grandparents, overworked mother and moody younger brother while dealing with the emotional repercussions of her father’s mysterious death back in India. About a teacher looking for love almost in spite of herself, it glimmers and charms right from the start.Īyesha Shamsi is not interested in marriage, in spite of the fact that she has had some offers and her twenties have begun to pass her by. With a mountain of would-be Darcys and Lizzies to sift through, it takes a lot to make any of them stand out from the heap but that is what Uzma Jalaluddin does with her gorgeous, sensitively rendered and brilliant told version of the story, Ayesha at Last. Granted, there have been so many retellings of Pride and Prejudice released over the last few years I can barely scrabble to the top of the hill of them to see ahead to the Sense and Sensibility retellings on the other side. Sometimes, an artist emerges to breathe fresh life into a classic and the reader is left agog with delight.
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