About the Book
Big announcement: Nina’s mom is going to marry Dhiraj! He’s not the wicked stepfather by any stretch of the imagination. He’s much, much worse. He’s a rapper! And a bad one at that. And his rapper name is Dhiraj Fist, aka Diddy Blood. Case rested. After all, dumb is the new wicked. Nina must stop this catastrophe, but she’s going to need co-conspirators. With her sister Nikki, who seems to keep disappearing mysteriously, and her mother’s best friend, Ashwin Uncle, who’s now fighting with her mother, Nina must find a way to save her favourite grownup from making a really bad decision. Because, really, grownups just can’t be trusted to make good life choices. As sweet as it is funny, Nina the Philosopher is a brilliant, witty, thought-provoking series that tells the story of a modern-day fairy tale: a single mother and her two wonderful, hilariously angst-ridden daughters.
About the Author
Judy Balan is a bestselling author. She also writes blogs, short plays and columns, and is currently working on her next book. Nina the Philosopher is (very loosely) based on Judy’s over-thinking, over-analysing eight-yearold daughter, Kiara, with whom she lives in Chennai. They have a shared love of fairy tales and are living their own version of happily ever after (with no prince in the picture).