Tamasin and her companion Rob set out with no real plan for the forthcoming year other than that each trip offers the possibility of perfection and discovery of something new. Whether investigating the food scene in San Francisco, sipping a cocktail in Venice, or walking down Sullivan St in New York to dine on fried chicken at the Blue Ribbon, they always set out in hope of the perfect dinner. They may find it at a small café in the hills of Santo Stefano Belbo in Piemonte, or snacking on falafel in a warm wad of pitta bread at Mamoun's, a hole in the wall in Greenwich Village. Sometimes they try too hard and don't find it at all, but even the disappointment is food for thought...and there is always tomorrow.

Sameer has a plan for the summer vacation - can his mother guess what it is?

Imagine new adventures! Take young explorers on an imaginary journey to places all over the world and beyond. Ski down a snowy mountain, scuba dive in the ocean, race dune buggies in a desert, and explore a jungle full of playful monkeys. Build a sandcastle on a tropical beach, take a trip to outer space, and meet oodles of people in a big city. There’s no limit to the imagination! Where Shall We Go Today? inspires young minds to imagine and perhaps later actually explore different places and enjoy new experiences.

A game of hide and seek leads Sameer to a magnificent journey into his own future!

You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living. I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there. No one to appreciate me. The legality of it upset a chair. Many times to celebrate we were called together and where we had been there was nothing there, nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely, leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering, in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there. -- from "The New Higher"

Where Shall We Go This Summer is an intense story of a sensitive young wife torn between the desire to abandon the boredom and hypocrisy of her middle class and ostensibly comfortable existence, and the realisation that the bonds that bind her to it cannot easily be broken. 'Skilful dramatisation... the narrative is precariously perched between myth and social reality... for the talent itself, as the novel evidences, is exceptional in its innate sensibility and awareness of the craft of fiction.' — Times of India