Published in over seventeen countries around the world, Ladies Coup is 'one of the most important feminist novels to come out of South Asia' (Daily Telegraph) disguised as an entertaining, delightful read. Akhila is forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has always been the backbone of her impossibly demanding family-until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to a resort town. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car-the Ladies Coup-Akhila asks the five women the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully warm novel is the story of a group of women who find comfort and strength in sharing the details of their lives.

Anita Nair is a popular Indian-English writer. She was born at Mundakottakurissi, near Shornur in Kerala State. She was working as the creative director of an advertising agency in Bangalore when she wrote her first book, a collection of short stories called Satyr of the Subway, which she sold to Har-Anand Press. The book won her a fellowship from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her second book was published by Penguin India, and was the first book by an Indian author to be published by Picador USA. Her books have been published in several languages around the world. She lives in Bangalore. Among Nair's early commercial works were pieces she penned in the late 90's for The Bangalore Monthly magazine (now called "080" Magazine), published by Explocity in a column titled 'The Economical Epicurean'.