# Serendipity

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- Book: [Serendipity](https://www.bookquiver.com/ashok-ferry/serendipity) ([Serendipity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ashok-ferry/serendipity.md))
- Authors: [Ashok Ferry](https://www.bookquiver.com/ashok-ferry)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4344-016-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2017-04-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Piyumi Segarajasingham is a young barrister in eighties London, half Tamil and half Sinhalese and newly responsible for her family’s share of an inheritance in Sri Lanka. The servants’ quarters of a house called Serendipity in Colombo’s colonial quarter, Cinnamon Gardens, is now her charge-she wants to keep it, her relatives are keen to sell. So begins Piyumi’s journey home, full of a host of memorable characters and the hilarious happenstance of daily life in Colombo, haunted by the memory of a stranger she met back in London-will they ever get together? Set in a more innocent time-Sri Lanka’s civil war had only just begun- Serendipity is satire, thriller and comedy of manners all in one, told with Ferrey’s trademark wit.