MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG

What happens when cultures collide? When poets and angels clash? Driven by voices in her head and visions of angelhood Pari is the heroine of this extraordinary novel. Part detective story part literary history and part romance this is the tale of a paranoid schizophrenic child-woman who is seduced-ike many others-by a language and culture not 'ours'. Rukmini Bhaya Nair skillfully weaves together the lives of Pari Sylvia Plath William Blake and D.H. Lawrence to create a carefully layered story that flashes between past present and future held together by a thread of love longing and the treasures of literature.