Have you ever envisaged a parallel world that exists around us? Maybe you dreamt of a scenario a while back and could travel back to the unknown world, where there is a path that takes you inside but as you proceed further, there is no way to get out……
The beauty of dreams is… they give you wings to fly! They can help you reach anywhere and accomplish what you aspire to!! But it sometimes exhorts you to formulate them and it all comes true…
Zoya, a happy-go-lucky woman with a promising career and an adoring family, lives in a blissful world, where her life is perfect, just what she always wanted. She is a woman who feels complete by following the path of her values, dedication and determination. A cheerful nature is what she has and she is confident about her life until an incident occurs that changes her world around completely.
She meets with an accident and is stuck in another world, consisting of her long-suppressed memories. She wishes to get out of this strange place but a power compels her to be there and become a forever part of her entity. Memories flowing through her make her question some of the choices she made and she wishes to find a way to return to her happy existence.
Zoya meets a child in this realm, who seems familiar to her, whom she nurtured once, within her. She spent nights and days with the little one, sharing everything that she planned for its arrival. This is the same infant whom she lost in the labour room. This almost crushed her world and all the dreams and aspirations she built around him. The spirit of her own child wants to be with his mother and does not want to leave her hand as it happened earlier. Her loving child becomes a guide who leads her in this parallel universe she now exists in.
This is not the only memory she recalls. With time, there is one more tale that lies in her subconscious mind. Once she loved passionately and wanted to spend her life with a boy she knew, but the universe had something else in mind. She now finds herself on the edge of living both lives where on one side there is a person whom she loved and on the other the man with whom she took the vows of being together forever. The life that she dreamt of once questions her decision to let it go.
Another memory overpowers her mind. A secret that was so traumatic at the time of its occurrence that it remained submerged in her subconscious for many years.
While trying to fight her own terrible memories, she realises the importance of family, being a part of it and the blessings that were somehow unintentionally taken for granted. She feels her happy world is the only place to live in and so she desperately wants to go back and thank everyone around and the Supreme Being for bestowing on her this beautiful life.
Would Zoya be able to make peace with her memories, and forgive her past, as she gets a chance to be with her loved ones again? Will she ever come to terms with who she is and whom she loved?
For satisfying all your curiosities, grab your copy of ‘A Bounteous Gift’ and read this wonderful book by the author Niharika Singh Sharma.
Niharika is an English teacher in a reputed private school in Gurugram. Teaching is her passion. She describes herself as a dreamer who loves to pen her musings onto paper and explore the world of fantasy which has no end. Her profession of teaching permits her to interact with the beautiful world of children and she enjoys being with them as it gives her a fresh and enthusiastic outlook on everything.
She has always been an avid reader and an animal enthusiast who goes out of her way to help out strays in her locality. Living in Gurugram for the past eighteen years, she is happily married and a proud mother of two children.
