I bought the book as a gift for my 11 year old niece and we both ended up loving the book!
Mayil is someone most of us growing up in middle class India can relate to. In my opinion, that in itself is a commendable achievement, seeing the number of books with too-precocious-to-be-true kind of protagonists. The book is very appealing because, it approaches adolescence in an honest, child like way.
If you are not twelve years old, it makes you remember what it was to be a 12 year old, and the...
Very nicely written...delves beautifully into the life of a typical 12 year old, exploring her questions, doubts, joys, confusions and fears in a way each one of us would be able to relate to...and invariably experienced around that stage of our lives...took me back to many many moments from my school days and vivid memories of my friends and classmates...