Updated On: 03 June, 2023 08:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Nandini Varma
Shroff’s tone makes the novel exciting right from the beginning. She injects it with banter and ripostes exchanged among her female characters. The author uses revenge against the ‘no-good husbands’ as the driving force for the plot

Parini Shroff. Pic Courtesy/Devin Spratt, PRH
Title: The Bandit Queens
Author: Parini Shroff
Genre: Fiction/Novel
Publisher: Harper-Collins
Cost: Rs 499
Broadly speaking, Parini Shroff’s debut novel, The Bandit Queens, is a window into the lives of women, who have been abused by their husbands in a fictional village of Gujarat.