I only wish it was a historical document, not a portrait of a world we have all helped to create. She arrives in a brothel, working in guaranteed slavery until she is broken or dies, astonished. She’s determined to excel, even though she can’t imagine the place. When she is sold to an itinerant Auntie, she thinks she’ll be working as a maid in the city. ‘A phenomenal book, a punch in the gut.It drew me in from the first page, even though I wanted to turn away.McCormick has taken a difficult, distasteful subject and written something readable and compassionate without shying away from the truths of the matter. In her village in Nepal, Lakshmi’s life is more than difficult and requires her to endure hunger, harsh weather and poverty. But, very gradually, Lakshmi makes friends with others in the house, and gathers her courage, until the day she has to face the hardest decision of all: will she risk everything to reclaim her life?ĭeceptively simple, eloquent, and shocking - this is a story you will never forget. This new world becomes a nightmare from which there is no escape.
She arrives at ‘Happiness House' full of hope, but soon learns the unthinkable truth - she has been sold into prostitution. When the monsoons wreck their crops yet again, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. Lakshmi's family is desperately poor, but village life in the mountains of Nepal has its share of pleasures.
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