| Second Thoughts | |
| Author: | Shobha De |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Release Date: | 1996 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 296 |
| Isbn: | 0-14-025567-2 |
| Dewey: | 823 21 |
| Congress: | PR9499.3.D4 S43 1996 |
| Oclc: | 35152014 |
| Preceded By: | Small Betrayals |
| Followed By: | Selective Memory |
Second Thoughts is a novel by Shobhaa De.
Second Thoughts is a love story about Maya, a pretty girl who is eager to escape her dull, middle-class home in Calcutta for the glamour of Mumbai, where she moves after marriage to Ranjan, a handsome, ambitious man who has an American university degree and a wealthy family background.
Maya is determined to be the ideal wife, but finds herself trapped and stifled by the confines of her arranged marriage to a man who, she discovers, is rigidly conservative and completely indifferent to her desires. She begins to experience great loneliness in suburban Mumbai.[1]
She strikes up a friendship with Nikhil, her charming, college-going neighbor, leading to love and betrayal.