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1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Saurabh Sharma

   Interview | Kathryn Stockett returns with new novel 17 years after ‘The Help’ (opens the original)

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   American novelist Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel, The Help (2009), became a phenomenal success but her second, The Calamity Club (Penguin India), took her 17 years to complete. Set in Mississippi during the decade-long Great Depression and its aftermath, The Calamity Club explores a bleak chapter in American history, when government policies included forced-sterilisation programmes and the detention of women deemed “promiscuous” or otherwise considered socially undesirable. The novel

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2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Saurabh Sharma

   Interview | Kit de Waal on playing within limitations in ‘The Best of Everything’ (opens the original)

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   Last year, author Kit de Waal, 65, was the jury chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. This year, she was on the longlist of the same prize with her novel The Best of Everything (published by Tinder Press).  Beginning in 1972, The Best of Everything traces the life of Paulette, a 29-year-old Caribbean woman working as an auxiliary nurse in Birmingham. Deeply in love with a man named Denton, she begins to imagine a future with him—until his life is cut short in a tragic accident. In the

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