Synopsis"What happens when friends from college reunite after two decades, savouring the familiar streets, decaying mansions and timeless coffee houses of Calcutta—and the past catches up with them unbidden?
Written in the robust tradition of serialised fiction and published in The Telegraph over forty-two weeks, Friends from College is a love-letter to Calcutta of the nineties – the decade in which ‘Gen X’ grew up, made friends, became lovers, drifted apart, and sometimes left the city for good. Much like our protagonist, Charulata Ghosh, who now lives in London and goes by Lata (to her mother’s great annoyance). Waiting impatiently for her to come home is Aaduri Bagchi, BFF, lapsed books editor trying to make sense of the new listicle school of journalism.
Unaware of Lata’s return, her ex, star filmmaker Ronny Banerjee, is preparing to shoot his magnum opus. Until a family wedding throws them together, and sparks fly. Laughter follows, and heartbreak. And secrets tumble out of forgotten closets.
Sunlit with hope and affection, this is a novel that quickly draws you into its evocative heart."
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Binding: PaperBack
About the author
"Devapriya Roy is the author of three novels, The Vague Woman’s Handbook (2011), The Weight Loss Club (2013) and Friends from College (2019), a version of which was serialised in The Telegraph from May 2018 to March 2019 as The Romantics of College Street.
In 2015, she published The Heat and Dust Project, co-written with Saurav Jha, a travel-memoir based on their travels around India on a very very tight budget, which debuted at no.1 on the Hindustan Times-AC Nielsen list. Over 2016 and 2017, she collaborated with the artist Priya Kuriyan to create Indira (2018), the acclaimed graphic biography of Indira Gandhi.
An alumna of Presidency College and Jawaharlal Nehru University, she lives in Delhi with her husband, writer Saurav Jha, and often pines for College Street, Calcutta."
