What is it about?
Checkmate concludes the story of Callum, Sephy and their daughter, Callie Rose. It paints a picture of the present using the past as a palate. How's that for arty-farty alliteration!! To be আরো serious for a moment, with this book I tried to প্রদর্শনী how the past has influenced the present for a number of people.
The book is called Checkmate because I wanted to have a number of confrontations taking place - the two major ones are between Jude (Callum's brother) and জুঁই (Sephy's mum) and between Sephy and her daughter, Callie Rose. I wanted a sense of tactics and strategy and...
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