The Fourth Passenger
by Mini Nair

Set in Mumbai during the Hindu-Muslim conflict of the early 1990s, The Fourth Passenger is the story of four women raised with traditional Indian values, whose partnership give them the temerity to stand up against the religious extremism. Having reached their thirties and disillusioned with their lives and husbands their decision to open an urban food stand is mingled with their memories of a distant past when two of them loved the same man. But, in order to establish their fledgling business, they must contend with individual temperament, extortionists, ruthless competitors, and most importantly, the prevailing religious intolerance.

Mini Nair has had two of her books published in India—an illustrated middle-grade children’s book and a biography of pharmaceutical scientist B.V. Patel. A post graduate in chemistry, Mini Nair now works for a German multinational company by the day and writes by the night. Mini lives with her family and twin daughters in Mumbai where she was also born and brought up. The Fourth Passenger is her first novel.

‘A fill-good read’ The Bookseller

‘A compelling tale’ Booklist