Kavery Nambisan is from Coorg district of Karnataka. She graduated from St John’s Medical College, Bangalore, and did her surgical training and FRCS in England. Since then she has devoted most of her working life to practice in rural Indian and has worked as a surgeon in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. She is now surgeon and medical adviser to Tata Coffee Limited. Kavery Nambisan is the author of several children’s books and four novels. She is married to journalist and poet Vijay Nambisan. By the author of The Scent of Pepper