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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam

‘I loved this beautiful beautiful book. It’s tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny’
MARIAN KEYES

To celebrate paperback publication this July, we are offering reading groups the opportunity to read and review this brilliantly funny and engaging novel. We are offering 25 sets (ten copies per set) PLUS a downloadable reading guide.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Professor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.

In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra begins to reassess his life, his career and his relationship with his three children.

He’s just missed out on the Nobel Prize (again). All this work. All this stress. It’s killing him.

Professor Chandra needs to take a break, and reluctantly agrees to visit a Californian retreat, to follow his bliss.

And so he must try to crack the most complex problem of all: the secret to his own happiness

Uplifting and hugely entertaining, PROFESSOR CHANDRA FOLLOWS HIS BLISS introduces an irresistibly funny, cynical and unforgettable new anti-hero to sit alongside Eleanor Oliphant, The Rosie Project’s Don Tillman and A Man Called Ove

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