3 Review(s)

Can You Do Me a Favour is a moving tale of resilience, love, and survival written with raw honesty and quiet strength. Rashi’s childhood is scarred by poverty and violence in the narrow lanes of Lalpura Mohalla, a place where survival itself feels like resistance. Her story begins with loss and trauma, but it unfolds into a journey of hope, healing, and discovery. Told through conversations on a train journey, Rashi opens her heart to a stranger, revisiting memories she has long carried in silence—her mother’s struggles, the shadow of menacing figures like Raka, and the helplessness of growing up in a world that commodified women. Yet within this darkness shines the quiet light of friendship and love. Amit, a classmate who enters her life with small but steady gestures of kindness, becomes a source of comfort and trust. Their bond is not built on dramatic declarations but on shared silences, subtle understanding, and the promise of a future free from the chains of her past. From crowded hostel rooms to Himalayan escapes, Rashi learns to breathe again, to love again, and to hope again. More than just a love story, this novel is about courage—the courage to confront trauma, to trust another person, and to carve hope from despair. Can You Do Me a Favour will stay with readers long after the last page, reminding us that even in the harshest of circumstances, love and humanity can flourish.