At the first meeting of the ELLE Book Club, debut author Rosalyn D’Mello discussed her new erotic memoir A Handbook For My Lover (HarperCollins india) at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai. As countless glasses of wine by Grover Zampa Vineyards and delicious starters and desserts by Indigo made their way around an intimate gathering, she spoke of love, sex, religion and writing with… Continue reading ELLE Book Club: In conversation with Rosalyn D’Mello
Cliffsnotes: A Handbook for My Lover by Rosalyn D’Mello is an erotic non-fiction memoir that chronicles six years of her love affair with a much older man that seems fated to end. Told in the form of long, lyrical letters to her lover (who does not read) – the author lays bare her desires, insecurities, sexual… Continue reading Book of the week: A Handbook For My Lover by Rosalyn D’Mello
ON TRUE LOVE STORIESBoth authors’ books have at their centre older, somewhat illicit loves. D’Mello’s erotic non-fiction memoir, A Handbook For My Lover (Harper Collins India), archives her affair with a photographer who is 30 years older. Kapoor’s fiction, A Bad Character (Penguin Random House), is rooted in reality — the author went “a little… Continue reading In conversation with Deepti Kapoor and Rosalyn D’Mello
