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Title: The Girl Who Knew too Much

AUTHOR: Vikrant Khanna

PP: 212

PRICE:₹175

Publisher:Penguin


I don’t have much patience with fiction. Especially the ‘dena ho to do, nahin to kat lo’ variety, so I never attempt reading Chetan bhagat, nor Amish after Rama. I picked up this book with a lot of trepidation. My colleague wanted to know how many days I’d take to read it, another said, a few hours. I said, one. But it was one day and some hours more.Vikrant Khanna’s both the titles are nice. Secretly Yours has the seductive amount of sex in the title, and The Girl Who Knew Too Much has the essence of crime in it. And I love crime thrillers. So, hoping against hope, I picked the book up. In the author’s note, there is a poignant para: One day, out of the blue, not long after my grandmother’s death, an idea crept into my mind (as is always the case with ideas). It was about a girl left devastated by her mother’s death.I began to think a lot about her. What happened to her mother? And then it got me thinking about my grandmother, heaven and hell, and what became of her. Khanna adds: in case you want to know, I’m a believer and I sincerely believe in Harry and his story.

So it is Harry’s story you will be reading. Khanna is a handsome Guy and if you are Girl-Girl, then his chocolate boy cover photo should entice you if nothing else can. If you are Guy, you can try figuring out what his Great idea is. I told you, there are Big Gs here, a lot of them. It may be fantasy racing if you think talking Lesbianism to a thirteen-odd kid is okay. He uses sentences like, ‘a smile as broad as the Panama canal lit up her face’ oh, yes, Vikrant Khanna is a captain in the Merchant Navy and has months of the wide wide wide ocean to cook up his stories. Not a bad idea at all.