Jessica Faleiro

India-based novelist, travel writer and avid reader. Author of 'The Delicate Balance of Little Lives' and 'Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa.'

My latest book 'The Delicate Balance of Little Lives' is now out on Kindle and in Paperback!
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