Set in a middle-class housing\n colony, this is the story of stay-at-home mum Monalisa, who cannot clean the\n kitchen counter enough times, Meera, who is bullied constantly by her\n traditional mother-in-law, college-going Abeer, who isn't sure how to impress\n the glamorous Mandy, academic Aparajita, who has no takers on the marriage\n mart, philosopher Ananda, whom no one takes seriously and Treeza, a former\n school secretary now sunk in gloom. Into their midst arrives Oxford-returned\n Sandhya - half hippie, half saadhvi, full spiritual guru. Under her aegis is\n formed The Weight Loss Club, throwing the lives of our heroes and heroines\n into utter and delightful disarray. But while chemistry brews and equations\n change, one question remains who is Brahmacharini Sandhya and why on earth\n has she moved into Nancy Housing Cooperative? Key Features A brilliantly\n written novel with an engaging storyline that focuses on the shedding of\n 'excess baggage' both physical and emotional this book will appeal to all\n readers of commercial fiction, especially women With engaging and loveable\n characters ranging from college students to housewives to well-settled\n professionals, The Weight Loss Club will be of interest to readers between\n the ages of twenty-five and forty-five The book, despite being highly\n readable commercial fiction, touches on issues affecting people everywhere\n marital problems, post-partum depression, difficult relatives, surviving\n illnesses, natural healing, etc The Weight Loss Club is one of Rupa's lead\n commercial fiction titles of the year and will have considerable marketing\n support behind it Devapriya Roy’s previous book was very successful and made\n it to several bestsellers lists across the country