Wednesday, January 29, 2014

WESTLAND LTD LAUNCHES AUTHOR PARUL SHARMA’S BOOK ‘TUKI’S GRAND SALON CHASE’

WESTLAND LTD LAUNCHES AUTHOR PARUL SHARMA’S BOOK ‘TUKI’S GRAND SALON CHASE’

25th January 2014, Mumbai: Leading publication house, Westland Ltd launched Parul Sharma’s novel “Tuki’s Grand Salon Chase” today at Title Waves, Bandra.  
In conversation with the author at the launch was author of The Reluctant Detective, Kiran Manral, who also interacted with the other attendees and media. Much like the protagonist in the book, Parul regaled the audience with hilarious anecdotes of real life situations that she encountered during the research of her book.
Categorized under the Genre of fiction the Release Type is Original, priced at Rs 350 it features a Binding Paperback. Imprinted by Westland Ltd it runs with a Page Extent of 328 pp.
 Displaying Author Parul Sharma at the launch of her book 'Tuki's Grand Salon Chase'.JPG
About The Book- For most hairstylists, the move from the dingy Lovely Beauty Parlour to the up-market Nancy’s Factory would be reward enough. Young, gifted Tuki, though, has her sights set on a bigger prize — her own salon! However, her well-laid plans start going awry as soon as the striking tattooist Faraaz joins Nancy’s Factory. Tuki needs to handle Faraaz’s advances, figure out the mystery behind the disappearance of the elderly, eccentric, brilliant writer Bijoy Dutta and rescue the multilayered Sweety Bhabhi from destitution. Finding herself at the heart of one storm too many, Tuki decides to run away from the leafy lanes of Bandra to the old-world Portuguese villas of Goa. In the comforting embrace of the village Aldona, she finds herself struggling with her rather untimely attraction to her enigmatic neighbour, the charming Arvind, and sharing house with Bijoy, haunted as he is by the ghosts of his past. Armed with nothing but a pair of scissors and the jigsaw pieces of her broken dream, Tuki has to navigate through Mumbai, Goa and London to find out if the universe is conspiring to make her or break her.
Tuki’s Grand Salon Chase is her heartwarming tale of finding love and hope in the unlikeliest of places.

About The Author- Parul Sharma grew up in the small towns of Uttar Pradesh. This was fortunate because it ensured that she ran into some rather quirky characters pretty early on in life. Once done with schooling, she made the rather dubious choice of studying Economics, a sentiment with which Economics agreed, no doubt. This made way for a degree from Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad where many inspiring cups of tea were consumed, among other things. She worked in the corporate sector and still does but she also writes novels. Bringing Up Vasu: That First Year was her first book and described the travails of Mira, a young, first-time mother. Her second novel was By the Water Cooler – the story of Mini and Tanya, young women who find that the corporate ladder is actually a greasy pole. Parul lives in Mumbai with her husband, two children and sometimes, if she’s lucky, Kittu, the street cat.

Displaying (L_R) Author, blogger and media consultant -Kiran Manral & Author Parul Sharma .JPG--------------------------------------------
About Westland Limited:
WESTLAND LIMITED is a subsidiary of Trent Limited, the retail arm of the Tata group, the largest diversified industrial group in India. The group includes EastWest Books and Tranquebar Press.
They publish literary as well as commercial fiction and non-fiction, and are engaged in both the publishing and distribution of books. After more than 50 years of experience in import and distribution of major academic and English language trade publications from all over the world, Westland’s focus has shifted to publishing in the last few years. Today, Westland is the fifth-largest English-language trade publisher in India and has published a host of bestsellers, including Amish Tripathi’s Immortals of Meluha and The Secret of the Nagas, which have together already sold over 5,50,000 copies, and Ashwin Sanghi’s The Rozabal Line and Chanakya’s Chant, whose count so far stands at 1,50,000copies sold.

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