Finding Belle
by Reeta Chakrabarti· 2025
A novel about mother-daughter relationships and the weight of family secrets that ranges from the beaches of Mombasa to the English suburbs.
What will it take to uncover her past?
A lost child. When Mivvi is young, her mother Belle is a puzzle: beautiful, troubled, and increasingly disconnected from the world.
A displaced mother. Belle came to England upon her marriage, a whirlwind romance from the beaches of Mombasa to the English suburbs. But far from friends and family, her life and love affair began to crumble.
A family secret. As Mivvi grows up in the shadow of her mother's illnesses and her father's absences, she must reconnect the pieces that her mother scattered. Can she uncover the secrets clouding their past – and in doing so rewrite her own story?
Travelling from the beaches of Mombasa to the suburbs of England and then on to the teeming streets of Kolkata, a story of mothers and daughters, betrayal and madness and a child who must forge her own identity.
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A novel about mother-daughter relationships and the weight of family secrets that ranges from the beaches of Mombasa to the English suburbs. What will it take to uncover her past? A lost child. When Mivvi is young, her mother Belle is a puzzle: beautiful, troubled, and increasingly disconnected from the world. A displaced mother. Belle came to England upon her marriage, a whirlwind romance from the beaches of Mombasa to the English suburbs. But far from friends and family, her life and love affair began to crumble. A family secret. As Mivvi grows up in the shadow of her mother's illnesses and her father's absences, she must reconnect the pieces that her mother scattered. Can she uncover the secrets clouding their past – and in doing so rewrite her own story? Travelling from the beaches of Mombasa to the suburbs of England and then on to the teeming streets of Kolkata, a story of mothers and daughters, betrayal and madness and a child who must forge her own identity.