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The Life And Times Of Layla The Ordinary

The Life And Times Of Layla The Ordinary

Madhavan Meenakshi Reddy
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Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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‘I am Layla the Ordinary. Doesn’t have the same ring to it as Alexander the Great, but then, some of us do have to be ordinary to make the specials stand out even more. Right? Right.’

Sift through the journal of Layla, whose overnight transformation from pedestrian to popular sends her world spinning into a riot of endless lists that range from:
1. Platonic (or, Laylanic) love to first kisses
2. BFF trouble to BF confusion
3. Fashion faux pas to ideal coffee dates

This rib-tickling and charming account of an average teenager’s life will have you hooked from the first page to the last.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Nov/2013

ISBN: 9780143332510

Length : 160 Pages

MRP : ₹199.00

The Life And Times Of Layla The Ordinary

Madhavan Meenakshi Reddy
,
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

‘I am Layla the Ordinary. Doesn’t have the same ring to it as Alexander the Great, but then, some of us do have to be ordinary to make the specials stand out even more. Right? Right.’

Sift through the journal of Layla, whose overnight transformation from pedestrian to popular sends her world spinning into a riot of endless lists that range from:
1. Platonic (or, Laylanic) love to first kisses
2. BFF trouble to BF confusion
3. Fashion faux pas to ideal coffee dates

This rib-tickling and charming account of an average teenager’s life will have you hooked from the first page to the last.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Ebooks

Madhavan Meenakshi Reddy

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan decided she wanted to become an author at sixteen, and didn't change her mind even when she turned thirty-three and was faced with the bleak financial reality of it. Her first book deal came out of her popular blog Compulsive Confessions (www.compulsiveconfessions.com), which she's been running as a passion project for the last eleven years. She is also the author of three previous books: You Are Here, The Life & Times of Layla the Ordinary and Cold Feet, as well as a short story collection called Before and Then After. She lives in New Delhi with her partner and their three cats. She hopes to move to Goa soon.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan has been a writer for as long as she can remember, but starting officially with her first book You Are Here, which was published in 2008 and commissioned on the basis of her popular blog, Compulsive Confessions. She has worked as a journalist and a freelance columnist, based mostly out of New Delhi. Soft Animal is her eighth book, written during the 2020 COVID lockdown in India. She currently lives and writes in Berlin. She can be reached via her newsletter The Internet Personified (mrm.substack.com).

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