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Random House Love Potion Number 10 A Novel by Betsy Woodman
It's 1961 India and in the second installment of the Jana Bibi trilogy, Jana, Mr. Ganguly and the whole crowd of off-beat locals face their biggest challenges love and espionageThe Jolly Grant House still welcomes all its visitors with the Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes hanging proudly outside its front door. Jana's fortune-telling has brought a lot of attention to the small town of Hamara Nagar, and now that the dust has settled and the town is safe from the threat of being drowned by a government dam, all eyes are on the Scottish-born card-reader, Jana, and her feisty, loose-beaked parrot, Mr. Ganguly. Some of these eyes, though, are not to be trusted and Mr. Ganguly finds himself the target of a potential kidnapping that puts Jana and her household on edge.Meanwhile, love is in the air and, thanks to Abenath's Apothecary, it's also in a bottle. He has created an intoxicating brew that he calls Love Potion Number 10 that seems to have Jana's head in a tizzy. While she explores her newest hobby, dream interpretation, her head is swimming with Is a new love possible at age 59? If so, would she ever marry again? All around her she's seeing different kinds of love and connection—family, arranged marriages, chemical attractions, even intercontinental romance between people who have only met via mail—so when an old flame arrives and rekindles long gone feelings, Jana begins to think that that Love Potion Number 10 just might be the magic elixir its inventor thinks it is.