Miss Timmins’ School for Girls, a vivid debut novel by Nayana Currimbhoy, is set at a remote Indian boarding school where, one monsoon night, a body is retrieved at the base of nearby cliffs and the narrator, a young teacher, finds herself a prime suspect in the murder. The Girl in the Garden, by Kamala Nair, is another debut novel that tells the story of a girl’s discovery of a mysterious garden behind an ancestral home in an Indian village, one that holds a long-hidden secret. |