A Good Girl by Chandana Roy is the story of a sweet Bengali girl named Ellora Chatterjee. Ellora, at the age of 8, is adopted by her paternal uncle and aunt, Dr. Akhilesh and Sumitradevi Chatterjee, respectively, after the death of her biological parents in a gruesome accident.
Raised to be a good girl, by her elderly uncle and aunt, Ellora Chatterjee lives by the rules of her orthodox society…until she falls in love at eighteen.
The news of her romantic involvement with a debutant batsman playing for the Indian Cricket Team makes national headlines. Overnight, a shy Ellora turns into a sexy poster girl chased by the college hooligans, shunned by her prudish classmates and condemned by the parochial population of her provincial town.
Set in India and America, A Good Girl is a heartrending story of a bright and beautiful young woman haunted by her scandalous past and caught up in a struggle to reinvent herself, after her whole life is turned upside down by one bad choice she had made as a naïve teenager. Now thirty-three, Ellora is once again facing a tough choice that will scandalize her community and hurt the people she cares for very deeply. Will she follow her heart this time?
