Second Thoughts is a novel by Shobhaa De.

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Second Thoughts

Author	Shobha De
Country	India
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Penguin Books
Publication date	1996
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	296
ISBN	0-14-025567-2
OCLC	35152014
Dewey Decimal	823 21
LC Class	PR9499.3.D4 S43 1996
Preceded by	Small Betrayals
Followed by	Selective Memory

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Second Thoughts is a love story about Maya, a pretty girl who is eager to escape her dull, middle-class home in Calcutta for the glamour of Mumbai, where she moves after marriage to Ranjan, a handsome, ambitious man who has an American university degree and a wealthy family background.

Maya is determined to be the ideal wife, but finds herself trapped and stifled by the confines of her arranged marriage to a man who, she discovers, is rigidly conservative and completely indifferent to her desires. She begins to experience great loneliness in suburban Mumbai.^[1]

She strikes up a friendship with Nikhil, her charming, college-going neighbor, leading to love and betrayal.