Maidless in Mumbai

Product Description Think babies are hard work? Getting the baby's maid to stick around is even harder.When career-driven reporter Anu Narain has a baby, her house turns into a railway station where every maid is a passing train.Will Anu use wile and guile to make her maids stay and her mom-in-law leave? How will she balance playing mom and playing ma'am? And how will Anu become a working mom when her husband has become a shirking dad?Hysterically funny, unapologetically honest, and charming all the way, this is the diary of a Mumbai mom who dreams of only one thing--the perfect maid to live happily forever with! About the Author Payal Kapadia lives in Mumbai with her husband, two opinionated daughters and a variable set of equally opinionated maids in a flatwhere the sink is always full and the gas cylinder is always empty. She is the author of five children's books including Horrid High and Wisha Wozzariter, which won the Crossword Award for Children's Writing in 2013. She writes when:the girls are outthe fridge is stockedthe dhobi has comethe missing football socks have been foundthe toaster worksthe maid is inPayal has a Master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has worked with Outlook in Bombay and The Japan Times in Tokyo.