# Second Thoughts

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/shobhaa-de/second-thoughts/9780144000500

![Second Thoughts](https://quivercdn.com/covers/india-penguin/shobhaa-de/second-thoughts_978-01-4400-050-0.png?v=2026-08-19%2001%3A20%3A40)

- Book: [Second Thoughts](https://www.bookquiver.com/shobhaa-de/second-thoughts) ([Second Thoughts.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/shobhaa-de/second-thoughts.md))
- Authors: [Shobhaa De](https://www.bookquiver.com/shobhaa-de)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4400-050-0
- Pages: 408
- Published: 2005-12-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The new bestseller from PBI – India’s biggest selling novelist A bittersweet love story for the Nineties It seems like the perfect match. Maya is pretty, young, eager to escape her dull, middle-class home in Calcutta and plunge into the whirl of Bombay, where she moves after her marriage. Ranjan, handsome, hard-driving and ambitious, has all the glamour of an American university degree and a wealthy family background. Maya is determined to be the ideal wife. Instead, she finds herself trapped and stifled by the confines of an arranged marriage to a man who, she discovers, is rigidly conservative and completely PBI – Indifferent to her desires. She begins to experience, too, the utter loneliness of a stranger in suburban Bombay. And then she strikes up a friendship with Nikhil, her charming, college-going neighbour, and the stage is set for an explosive tale of love, betrayal and paths not taken.