The conventional mindset is that single women beyond thirty are highly ambitious and career oriented;they are very independent and strongly opinionated and completely sideline the emotion called love. All of this and more is shattered when you read TABLE FOR ONE by Neha Bindal. Here the protagonist Taara Maheshwari is no doubt a single, past thirty, successful lawyer yet she is also a highly emotional and sometimes under confident romantic at heart. Awkward? Hard to digest ?
Her failed relationships with Tarun and Shivam and some casual flings make her forgo the concept of forever after and bargain a deal with her father before she solemnises her matrimony with Saurabh. What deal? Read it for your own.
On her solo Europe trip she not only gets to know that people everywhere are alike, usually good yet driven by circumstances; but also gets to reinvent and recreate her self. Paris Venice Switzerland Italy Rome Vatican City ets are not just places of her itinerary but life shaping experiences of a kind. What is the most spectacular thing in the novel is on page 171 where Taara says “ Letting Fred go was very hard, but it was liberating too........... I didn’t want to take that road...... but I chose to live freely over being bounded by love.”
Is she transformed? What makes this Bollywood style diehard romantic take such a detour? Or was it a new journey? A journey to go back to pavilion or towards a new destination? Read out for more in the novel- surely a fantastic read for a debut piece. Not to forget the sprinklers of sarcasm here and there which very subtly open up your eyes to the realities of life.
The title is not only apt but absolutely meaningful in the context of the plot which keeps on sailing effortlessly uniquely titled chapters( with no index- mind it). Due credit must also be given to the cover page designers as it is both captivating and enticing- a bag full of memories, not of moments in places but of people.
Congratulations to the author and the publication house
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