Cobwebs in the Sky

About the Book

Cobwebs in the Sky is a powerful narrative of four friends who evolve gradually from women with normal weaknesses and foibles into “women of substance.” Cutting across generations, the novel emphasizes that the basic sense of values has not changed over the years. The core of the problems and pitfalls of each succeeding generation continues to be love, sex, and marriage, which spawn emotions and actions that are universally similar—lust, revenge, deceit, rape, and abuse. These have a great impact on one’s destiny and can drive people to acts of great courage and compassion or degrade them to commit the most heinous of crimes. The strong bonds and unstinting trust and faith of family and friends alone provide the strength to cope with and rise above traumatic experiences in life. The harsh reality is that crimes against women have continued to flourish. The book is unique in content and format, the lucid language speaking to a very wide swath of English-reading population all over the world, lending itself very well to translations to reach readers in other countries. Surely, a book that must be read.

About the Author

Malati Jaikumar’s evocative style captures the beauty and sordidness of love and sex, probing complexities of human relationships with understanding. The riveting story, written with sensitivity and a healthy dose of realism, conveys the sadness of life but also a sense of reassurance. Jaikumar, MBE, journalist, writer, and media consultant, lives in Coimbatore, India. Her short stories are part of many anthologies.