Shweta Bachchan-Nanda's debut novel, which talks about everyday lives and is set in a Mumbai apartment, will be launched on the eve of her father's birthday on October 10.
Published by HarperCollins India, "Paradise Towers" is billed as a "quirky, intimate debut that explores the intertwined lives in the building - a forbidden romance, an elopement, the undercurrents of tension in corridor interactions and an explosive Diwali celebration".
Speaking about how she came to write "Paradise Towers", Shweta says, "I grew up with my grandfather who was a poet and a writer. Writing and reading was always a very important part of our lives. I've been writing a diary ever since I was a little girl, and wrote stories that I never shared with anyone.
"Then, one day I just said, I am going to take this plunge. I started writing a column for a newspaper in Mumbai and it gave me a lot of confidence to go ahead and do this full time, and that's where 'Paradise Towers' comes from."
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