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Soldier & Spice

Soldier & Spice

Aditi Mathur Kumar
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For Pia, regular life is a thing of the past. She is now an army wife. From ‘just Pia’ to an aunty, a memsaab . . . and, her favourite words in the whole wide world, Mrs Pia Arjun Mehra.

Pia finds herself having to suddenly be more ‘lady-like’, focus on themed ladies’ meets, high teas and welfare functions, and deal with long (unexpected) spells of separation from her husband. She faces extraordinary challenges, a little heartache and, well, army-life lessons. In the mysterious and grand world of army wives, Pia learns that walking in high heels is okay as long as you don’t trip on combat boots. She learns that ‘civil’ is also a noun, that JCO and GOC are (very) different from each other, that snacks are ‘shown’ and ‘WTF’ is better explained as Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Yes, it really is a new world.

This quirky, hilarious story of the first year of Pia’s life as an army wife will show you that the spice to a soldier’s life is most definitely his better, very strong, extremely elegant, never-cussing, witty, warm and passionate half-his army wife.

Imprint: Penguin Veer

Published: Feb/2023

ISBN: 9780143459873

Length : 272 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

Soldier & Spice

Aditi Mathur Kumar

For Pia, regular life is a thing of the past. She is now an army wife. From ‘just Pia’ to an aunty, a memsaab . . . and, her favourite words in the whole wide world, Mrs Pia Arjun Mehra.

Pia finds herself having to suddenly be more ‘lady-like’, focus on themed ladies’ meets, high teas and welfare functions, and deal with long (unexpected) spells of separation from her husband. She faces extraordinary challenges, a little heartache and, well, army-life lessons. In the mysterious and grand world of army wives, Pia learns that walking in high heels is okay as long as you don’t trip on combat boots. She learns that ‘civil’ is also a noun, that JCO and GOC are (very) different from each other, that snacks are ‘shown’ and ‘WTF’ is better explained as Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Yes, it really is a new world.

This quirky, hilarious story of the first year of Pia’s life as an army wife will show you that the spice to a soldier’s life is most definitely his better, very strong, extremely elegant, never-cussing, witty, warm and passionate half-his army wife.

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Aditi Mathur Kumar

Aditi Mathur Kumar is a proud Indian Army wife, and this is her first book, based on the lives of army wives. As a civilian married to an army officer, she found a lot of stories from her life that she felt were poignant and the world needed to hear them. Soldier and Spice is a result of that. Aditi is also the only Indian Army wife to deliver a TEDx talk about the lives of army families. Aditi's other books are Love, Whatever That Means and This Heartbreak: A Collection of Poems. Apart from being an author of three books, Aditi works in
advertising and can be found on Twitter and Instagram, @adicrazy.

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