Custody, Manju Kapur's latest book is a tender, restrained and honest look at the fall-out of divorce on an Indian middle-class family and the legal system that comes into play in the process

Urban, upper middle-class Delhi is the setting for Manju Kapur's fifth book, Custody, a startlingly sincere chronicle of marriage, divorce, children and the Indian legal system.



Kapur, who taught literature at Delhi's Miranda House for over 25 years, and whose previous works include the acclaimed Difficult Daughters and The Immigrant, has covered the entire gamut of relations and emotions that transcend the modern Indian family.

Custody is a gentle, restrained look at the repercussions of divorce in a social setup on the cusp of change in the 1990s. THE GUIDE speaks to Manju Kapur on her experiences while working on the book.