She had told her story many times, you could tell; the emotion was gone out of it, but the sentences were easier to say.
' "I came to the city when I was a girl," said Rashi, folding her thin hands in her lap. Her voice was quiet but clear, her words sure. She had told her story many times, you could tell; the emotion was gone out of it, but the sentences were easier to say. Below us, in the street, someone was laughing.' Rashi was bought, for £100, by a man who promised she would be educated. Instead, she found herself forced to work in a brothel in the slums of India. She was trapped, with no means to escape, and nowhere to go. You can read more of her story in CLARA - A Good Psychopath? Can Clara, born with all the traits of a psychopathic disorder, help Rashi? She is selfish, glib, lies easily and manipulates situations to suit herself. But can those traits also be a strength? All the characters are fictitious, all the situations are very real. The compelling new novel from Anne E. Thompson is uncompromising, sometimes uncomfortable, always exciting. An ea...