Manju Kapur’s novel Difficult Daughters is a story of a daughter’s voyage back into her mother’s painful past. Virmati encounters freedom-fighters of all religions and advanced education as an escape route. The world is full of love, affection, co-wife and stepchildren, Virmati and all that are soft and sweet and noble in human nature. Between a child and a mother, trust and love exist. Belonging to the same gender, they are supposed to be united a bond of understanding besides love and trust. Much has been written on this holy relation and much has been exposed. Daughters are not all that dependent, admiring lot and mothers are not all that doting and sacrificing one. Their relationship is shaped by the surroundings that dominate.

Mother, daughter rapport, difficult daughters, Virmati