This book aims to analyze Shashi Deshpande’s contribution to Indian English fiction. Studying her domestic, detective and children’s novels, it explores the inner realms of the female characters, their psyche, conflicts, growth, and outbursts and protests against the traditional male dominations.

Shashi Deshpande ‘s novels, studied in this book, include The Dark Holds No Terrors, Roots and Shadows, That Long Silence, The Binding Vine, A Matter of Time, Small Remedies, Moving on, If I Die Today, Come up and Be Dead, The Narayanpur Incident, The Summer Adventure, The Hidden Treasure, and The Only Witness.