Book Review 172 # A Barren Heart: What comes after Happily Ever After

Blurb:


When having it all isn’t enough…

Aman and Rhea seem to have the perfect marriage. They are madly in love - with each other, with their own careers and the home and life they are building in a quiet Mumbai suburb.
Rhea is a successful interior designer with a thriving business while Aman is a commercial pilot who is at peace with his life, on the ground and in the skies! What could possibly be lacking in their picture-perfect marriage?

A baby.

Like most women, thirty plus Rhea Chakraborty, wants to hold her own flesh and blood in her arms. And Aman too wants the same.
Or does he?

After another unexplained miscarriage that takes a severe emotional, physical, and psychological toll on them, Aman isn't sure if having a baby will complete them or destroy them.

Suddenly, Rhea and Aman find the fabric of their stable marriage fraying beneath the strain of their failed conceptions. Where once they were a team with a common goal, they now find themselves on opposite sides with shifting goalposts.

A Barren Heart is set in so-called modern India and is the story of the struggle of an affluent, educated couple who are still fighting the shackles of societal indoctrination and expectations and losing each other in the process.

My Take:

A strong emotional master piece by the author. A very powerful emotion love and the layers the same emotion brings in relationships.


A beautiful saga that explains marriage and relationships, the ups and downs. Aman and Rhea have a perfect marriage. With everything right for them, a successful life, perfect partner and wonderful career, things start changing between them from the time Rhea wishes to be a mother. A couple of miscarriages take a toll on their foundation of relationships. Suddenly they are two different people wanting different things in life.

How will they cope up with the change?? Will the baby/pregnancy be the end for them or a new beginning?? Read the book to find out.

Shilpa truly has brought the best out of the characters. The story stands tall in front of you. Loved the fiery Ishita, vivacious Amarya and the moments where family stands by her.

I would rate this 4.5/5

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