My Father's Daughter

This book explores the journey of a young South African girl of Indian origin, Romy, who is kidnapped and raped while on a study visit to the Sorbonne in Paris. She escapes from her captors and flees back to her family in South Africa but discovers later that she is pregnant. A friend of the family, Arish Metha, a psychiatrist and long-time secret admirer of Romy, claims the child as his and she agrees to marry him to gain social respectability.
Romy and Arish lead a happy life as husband a...