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14 January 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Vedashree Khambete-Sharma works in advertising in Mumbai, and in the course of her 18-year copywriting career, she has won both Indian and international awards for her work, including a Cannes Lion. What Will People Think?<\/em><\/a> is her fourth novel and the first to be published in the UK.<\/p>\n

What Will People Think?<\/em> was published by Atlantic Books in November and is also available from the Suffolk Community Libraries catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What was your first introduction to books and reading? Were you surrounded by books as you were growing up or did you visit a library?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My parents had several Marathi books at home, but my earliest exposure to English ones came with the Childcraft set of books. Those were pretty expensive in the 80s and 90s and we were a middle-class family, so buying the whole set was out of the question. But my mother knew I really enjoyed reading, so she struck up a deal with a local bookstore owner, who allowed her to buy the 15 Childcraft books, not together as a set, but one by one, over 15 months. She would also buy me second-hand books from roadside bookstalls \u2013 they had a system where you could read and return the books and they\u2019d return your money, after taking a small \u201creading fee\u201d. So I grew up always having something to read, but not necessarily being surrounded by books.<\/p>\n

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What was your journey to publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been rather a roller coaster ride, pardon the clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n

My first publishing opportunity came knocking on my door, without me having to lift a finger. I used to write a personal blog some 10 years ago, when the internet was a nicer, safer place. An editor at one of India\u2019s well-known publishing houses read my posts about my job and friends and the shenanigans we got up to in the office. She got in touch, asking if I\u2019d like to write a novel set in advertising. I said yes, she offered me a ridiculously tiny advance. I pitched the book elsewhere, Hachette picked it up and a few months later my first novel came out. Just like that.<\/p>\n

Then my next novel got turned down by pretty much every major publishing house. I was in the wings for a whole year, waiting for the last editor \u2013 at HarperCollins \u2013 to say no before I threw in the towel and self-published. But then, she ended up loving my book. And that\u2019s how books 2 and then 3 happened.<\/p>\n

What Will People Think?<\/em><\/a> was actually supposed to be book 5. But book 4 had a similar fate to book 2 \u2013 no takers. Then, one editor said yes, I signed the contract and promptly got ghosted.<\/p>\n

So yes, the last eleven years have had their ups and downs.<\/p>\n

With What Will People Think?<\/em> though, the experience has been uniformly positive. Like something out of a dream, really. I was advised by a fellow author to get an agent, which after a few short weeks I actually got \u2013 I\u2019m told the actual process takes months, so this was the first surprise. Then, just as quickly, Corvus bought the book, which was surprise number two. I think it comes from having the right people champion your book. Both my agent Judith and my editor Sarah love Austen. They got what I was trying to do with this book and I think that made all the difference.<\/p>\n

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What is your writing routine and how do you fit it in with your life as a copywriter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My writing routine is erratic at best – I think that goes with having a full time job and a child. It\u2019s difficult to say, okay, I\u2019m going to write for an hour daily, from this time to this time, and then stick to it. Life happens. A meeting is rescheduled. A school notebook can\u2019t be found. So I find it best to write whenever I can. Which, as a copywriter, doesn\u2019t happen daily. It can\u2019t. Neither do I get huge swathes of undisturbed time, when I can immerse myself in my writing. But whatever time I do get to write, during that time I\u2019m fully focused. If it\u2019s twenty minutes, half an hour, so be it. I just sit and write. Writer\u2019s block is not a luxury I can afford.<\/p>\n

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Your latest book in the UK is What Will People Think?<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Can you tell us a little about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

On paper, it\u2019s an adaptation of Pride & Prejudice<\/em><\/a> set in 1970s Mumbai. But it\u2019s more than that. It\u2019s a commentary on women\u2019s place in society and family in India. It\u2019s about sisterhood and friendship and community. It discusses colourism and independence, love and marriage and everything attached to them, both good and bad. It takes you to places you\u2019ve never heard of, leave alone read about.<\/p>\n

Oh, and it\u2019s funny too.<\/p>\n

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For UK readers your book is a blaze of colour and characters. I particularly enjoyed the footnotes to explain some of the Indian terms which you expect to be scholarly but are anything but! Did you always intend to include the footnotes or did they come afterwards for UK readers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had footnotes in all my books. They were inspired by Sir Terry Pratchett, who used footnotes in his Discworld series, both as a narrative device as well as for world-building. My books generally tend to tell readers about something they don\u2019t know, about a world or place they\u2019re not familiar with \u2013 advertising, Mumbai, Maharashtra. The footnotes help me set context, while staying tongue-in-cheek, which goes a long way in making them the opposite of academic.<\/p>\n

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Much like Jane Austen, you deal with some serious subjects around the role of women and the expectations placed on them. The differences between generations and having to ask permission for everything. You even mention Ila’s skin colour. Have things improved for women in India since 1976 when you set the book or are there still lots of battles to fight?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some things have changed, some not so much. For instance, it\u2019s more acceptable for women to study more, to work, but not all over India, not across social classes. There is still a prevalent feeling that a woman ought to quit her job after her wedding, to focus properly on her household responsibilities. The same is true for dowry \u2013 there are still families that would rather save money for their daughter\u2019s wedding, than for her education. Eyebrows are still raised if you marry someone who doesn\u2019t belong to your religion, community, class, caste. It\u2019s a lot more common these days than it was in 1976, and considered more acceptable, but in many cases, couples have to fight their families for quite a long time, to get both sides to agree to such a love match.<\/p>\n

As for skin, the body positivity movement has made it possible for people to love the colour of their skin, but Indian matrimonial ads still ask for fair brides. So it\u2019s a case of you win some, you lose some.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say we\u2019re definitely evolving as a society, but at a pace that\u2019s slower than ideal.<\/p>\n

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Are there any plans for a Bollywood movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not yet, but a girl can dream.<\/p>\n

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What Will People Think?<\/em> is your fourth book but your first to be published in the UK. Will we get the chance to read any more of your back catalogue?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The gods, and my previous publishers willing, absolutely.<\/p>\n

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What’s next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to stick around in the 70s and write another book set there. There\u2019s so much more to explore, so many customs, nuances, traditions to capture. So with any luck, another nice literary romance set in the 70s, I should think.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us one thing about yourself that your readers may not know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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