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Do a stellar academic background, a well-paying job with ample recognition, and a loving life partner imply happiness?
Sonia is an ambitious woman working in the country’s most prominent media company. Sameep, her husband, has loved her ever since their IIM-Ahmedabad days. Her direct report, Mehul, idolises her, and her boss, Rishabh, acknowledges her intellectual prowess. But Sonia’s past interferes with the present, making her life—and the lives of those around her— lack balance. Time flies fast but leaves shadows behind.
A Price to Love is a contemporary tale showcasing the struggles of making a thriving personal life and a successful career tango in the highly competitive corporate arena… especially if you are a woman.
Sonia has a life everyone envies a successful professional at the media company and a perfect loving husband, but not everything lasts. Sonia is highly ambitious, which helps her to flourish in her job. She has a boss, Rishabh, who complicates her work, and a colleague, Mehul, who admires her, but that also complicates her personal life and makes it difficult for her husband, Sameep, who has loved her since the first time they met at college. But one mistake from the past and one from the present further complicate her already messed-up life. With the burden of the past and the mistake of the present, she is struggling to find balance in her personal and professional lives.
This book shows the dark side and a bit of the harsh reality of corporate life and the relationship front. It has a story of uncomfortable topics and tension that grows with every page. The story switches between past and present with pretty small chapters, and the narrative is hooking and impressive enough to hold me in place for hours. Every character in the novel has a flaw, and Jain has done a fantastic job with it.
Sonia is a mess of childhood trauma and mental illness, which the author did wonders in portraying. Sonia's character is perfect in the start, puzzling in the middle, and unpleasant towards the end. Mehul and Rishabh are the ones you can find anywhere in the corporate world. Sameep is the one I find myself connected with and the only character likable to me; he sheds light on Sonia throughout the book.
The climax is good and unexpected, but still not satisfying. It was even more disheartening since Sameep is the one I connect with the most. To give it a happy end, it lost the chance of an impressive sad end. The author mentions the rare disorder but hardly talks about it rather than finding the solution, giving the impression that there is no way because of its longer effect. An open mind is needed for this book because it talks about infidelity. It is encouraging or justified in this book which is personally unbearable to me.
An entertaining and refreshing read tangled in a lot of drama and chaos of emotions.
Buy and Read this book!
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