Editorial Director Vicky Blunden has acquired World All Language rights in ebook, print and audio to Girl in a Red Silk Sari by Sharon Maas, and will publish in April 2025.

Girl in a Red Silk Sari is a powerful tale of redemption, courage, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. It tells the heart-wrenching story of a mother’s desperate search through Mumbai’s hidden streets and alleys to find her abducted thirteen-year-old daughter – a journey which means confronting her own past mistakes, and which leads unexpectedly to rekindling the love she thought she’d lost forever.

Maas says,

“I’m more than delighted that Girl in a Red Silk Sari has found new life and a new home with Storm. Oliver Rhodes has played a vital role in my writing life; it’s wonderful to be working with him again. Asha’s story has been with me for more than twenty years and is very dear to my heart. It’s an important story, I believe, and very relevant in today’s turbulent world. I’m most confident that Storm’s dynamic team will give it wings to fly!”

Blunden says,

“It’s a huge honour to be working with Sharon and we’re excited to welcome her to Storm. Her spellbinding storytelling transports readers into other lives and is gripping to read, emotional and full of humanity. This is a book with a strong message too and it deserves to be read widely. We’re thrilled to be re-launching this powerful story to a new audience.”

Sharon Maas’s first novel, Of Marriageable Age, was published to rave reviews and she has since published sixteen novels which span continents, cultures and eras, from the sugar plantations of colonial British Guiana in South America, to the French battlefields of World War Two, to the present-day brothels of Mumbai and the rice-fields and villages of South India.

For more information, connect with Sharon on X, Facebook and Instagram and visit her at https://www.sharonmaas.com/