Amrita Seth

Amrita Seth is thirty-nine, British Indian and from Leicester. She spent nine years as a corporate lawyer before she wrote full time, which taught her that most family firms are run by whoever actually reads the paperwork, and that this is rarely the man whose name is on the door. She has been married for eleven years to a man her aunt found for her, and she volunteers the fact cheerfully to anyone who assumes it must have been a tragedy. She writes contemporary arranged-marriage romance in South Asian high society, for readers who want the weddings, the families and the slow discovery of a stranger. She is bored of arranged marriage written as a cage to escape. In her books it is what it more often is: an introduction, after which two adults decide.