Tuesday 11 August 2009

Stories

Hello, I write short stories. Recently I finished writing my first novel in English. It is edited by a well known professional editor in the UK. I am experiencing more knowledge in story writing by following the critique I receive. I am retired. My novel deals with an Indian woman who gets married at the age of 14 to an Indian boy who had to leave India due to his Portuguese nationality. Both the Indian and Portuguese governments had disagreement on the territorial rights over Goa, Div and Daman in India. The respective citizens were deported to their country of birth. Hence the departure of the married boy. She had to face many problems on her own without any help. She gets raped by the uncle-in-law. After six years, she is sent to England where her husband is a student.
In England, she learns the basic English and experiences many new things affecting her life. She becomes dependent on husband's help after she has a fall from the top of the stairs in the house. Husband works for the Civil service department for twelve years and gets transfer to Customs at Heahtrow. After the birth of their son, a cousin, who arrived unexpectedly from Canada, creats termoil in the family. The cousin wants to sleep with the lady of the house. He is a son of the uncle-in-law who raped the house lady before. Then, cousin demands money and the ownership of the house. There are frequent arguments between the couple and cousin resulting in many violent situations. The wife suffers from serious consequences; she takes more painkillers and has asthma and depression. The cousin gets married to an Indian girl born in the UK and leaves the house.
Then, the grown up son decides to get married to a girl born in the UK so that his mother could get help with house work etc. However, the daughter-in-law does not want to look after the parents of her husband. The lady suffers more depression and gets addicted to various medications. Her son is forced to leave the house.
The main protagonist has her hips replaced but she never recoveres from the operations and dies in the hospital.
I would appreciate comments on the story plot.