Just Married, Please Excuse : Opposite Attract-Trouble (English, Paperback, Lal Yashodhara)
Just Married, Please Excuse : Opposite Attract-Trouble (English, Paperback, Lal Yashodhara)
- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
- Genre: Fiction
- ISBN: 9789350292273, 9350292270
- Pages: 276
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An endearing tale of a big-city Punjabi girl and her small town Brahmin husband caught in life’s most delightful idiocracy.
Summary Of The Book
Just Married, Please Excuse is the story is of young Yashodhara, a hot-tempered Delhi girl and Vijay, a simple guy who belongs to a rather old fashioned Jaipur based family. After a brief courtship, they decide to get married and face all those untold, behind the scene situations that almost every newly married couple encounter.
The author hilariously narrates the tales of this young couple who have to deal with each other’s absurd temperaments while trying to please their in-laws and settling into their new life. From wedding ceremonies to a cooking fiasco, from moving to a city to wearing a saree, the author takes us through the couple’s predicaments with innate humor and refreshing frankness. All through the book, we see Yashodhara’s obscure temper tantrums and Vijay’s unfortunate yet hilarious foot-in-mouth situations. The book has some more interesting characters like Vinod and Zarreena, their domestic help, and Vivi, one of their friends.
Just as the couple begins to settle into their new life, life throws another curve ball at them, forcing them to start right from scratch. Unexpected pregnancy throws their life awry, forcing them to come to terms with this serendipity. The arrival of Anoushka (fondly called peanut), their little daughter, brings up a whole new set of differences. The couple soon realize that they have contrasting opinions on bringing up their daughter, making this a story of self-discovery and adjustments.
Just Married, Please Excuse doesn’t have any uncomfortable situations and is ideal for the Indian market. The author’s refreshing and honest take on relationships and parenting will have you in splits. The concept of new-age parenting is tactfully explored in this book.
About Yashodhara Lal
Yashodhara Lal is a marketing professional and an avid blogger.
Her new book, titled Sorting Out Sid is set to be out on December 2013.
An IIM-B graduate, Yashodhara Lal is a resident of Delhi, a mother of three children, and has been married since the last ten years. She lives in Gurgaon with her family.
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Just Read...kindly excuse my wanting more!
I could relate to the story as if it was my own story, the part about being myself, settling into a new family and the research on pregnancy and child rearing! The characters were brought out very well that it was almost as if you knew Y and V for a long time now.
The language used looked so simple at first but then I realis...
Radhika Binani
Certified Buyer
Aug, 2012
A must for every newly weds
I could relate to so much of it..it's a very simple sweet and a light book which refreshes you. Plus it is so humorous and witty at the same time. I finished the book very soon which itself says that it keeps you gripped till the very end. I think girls should like this book more and the romantic ones
Flipkart Customer
May, 2015
very cute
But not a top notch book. If u are an avid reader u may give it a pass. As i knw i enjoyed it only coz of an ongoing holiday.
Anisha Sharan
Certified Buyer, Shimla
May, 2014
Seriously Funny !
I think every husband needs to read this book. Anecdotal references that seem straight out of a slice of life on marriage, relationships ...issues that make you realise that the complicated problems have the most natural explanations and the simplest of solutions. It makes you look back on your experiences with pleasant nostalgia.
Its a light, breezy read and the beauty of the writing is that it de...
Pankaj Raj
Aug, 2012
A humorous take on marriage
Megha Mathur
Jul, 2012
Something Different!
The book revolves around the arranged marriage between the typical Delhite girl and an old fashioned guy. It’s a story about a proud Punjabi girl getting married in a non-Punjabi family, and is settled in Bangalore, then in Mumbai. Other than the husband-wife...
Priyanka Singhal
Oct, 2012
please read
Supriya Kalra
Feb, 2013
Indian authors have come of age ...
Priyal Gulati
Certified Buyer
Feb, 2013
The Kids Are All Right
But before that two confessions.
Though I firmly believe that books make for the best present, I usually gift people a book voucher rather than gifting them a book per se..this as I believe "imposing" my taste in books or what the NYT BestSeller is telling us a particular week, equals a well-meaning aunt steering you towards the trial room "Oh but sweetheart this colour looks so GREAT on you". So, there are very few books that allow me to rethink my cardinal rule "THO...
Aneela Z Babar
Certified Buyer
Jul, 2012
chota packet bada dhamaka
had been following Y on her blog and was really impressed by her writing style and brilliant choice of words to describe otherwise simple n common things. the hallmark of her writing style is clearly evident in her book as well.
didn't feel as if i was reading a book, could visualize the things so vividly as if i was a witness to all the events (some of them nearly earth-shattering #bhookamp)
for me the one take away from the book was the quote by mummyji -ladne...
nishal joseph
Certified Buyer
Jul, 2012
