Renita D’Silva Books In Order

Publication Order of Daughters of India Books

Publication Order of Secrets of India Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Renita D’Silva is a published author and not only loves creating stories but reading them too.

D’Silva had great pride when the first book in her historical saga series set on West India Dock Road was set to be published in 2025. She has published many fictional works, such as Monsoon Memories and The Forgotten Daughter, in addition to others.

Her short stories have done very well and have been published in Bartleby Snopes, this zine, The View From Here, Platinum Page, Verve, Paragraph Planet, and more. Her works have been nominated for the Pushcart prize and the Best of the Net Anthology. She has been shortlisted for the Very Short Story Award from LoveReading and The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize.

D’Silva has also been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. “Eavesdropping Shamelessly”, her short story, was published in the Arts Council England-funded Bridges Not Borders anthology of prize-winning stories.

The Neighbours was her first psychological thriller. It won her the Joffe Books Prize 2023.

Monsoon Memories is an amazing journey through a passionate and mesmerizing land of contrasts with a family whose story will reach through through the pages and touch the reader’s heart. If you love the works of Diane Chamberlain or Jodi Picoult or Dorothy Koomson, you might just love Monsoon Memories. Pick up a copy and read the book that Novel Escapes ‘couldn’t recommend’ ‘more’.

Main character Shirin has been exiled from her family who lives in India for over a decade. Now she has married and moved somewhere else, and they have a comfortable life in London. However nice it may be, though, they cannot ignore that their life here is empty.

Memories of her childhood drifting up don’t help. Shirin remembers colors, exotic fragrances, stifling heat, tropical storms– so many things that England simply does not and will never offer. These memories fill Shirin with a growing ache inside herself for the people that she loves and the land that she loves.

These recollections come through, but with them come dark clouds of secrets and scandals. The exact secrets that caused her to flee from her old life… and make sure that she can never come back to it.

Meanwhile, in Bangalore, Shirin’s brother has a daughter. She discovers a forgotten photograph, one that managed to make it through the flames. She wants to solve the mystery of the aunt that she never came to know.

What Reena does will set in place a chain of events that once completed expose the trauma of the past and change the path of the future forever. Read Monsoon Memories to capture all of this amazing story for yourself!

The Forgotten Daughter is another fictional novel to come out from Renita D’Silva. If you loved the Monsoon Memories novel, be sure to check this one out too and see what you think!

You were adopted. They were just three words, but put in a letter going along with her parents’ will, they are devastating.

Nisha always had a carefully ordered world, and now it is falling apart as a result of these three simple words. Who would have thought so few words could cause such chaos and pain?

Nisha grew up in England, raised by her emotionally reserved parents who cared for her deeply. Nisha has never been the type to take risks, but these words spark something in her.

Now with the scrawled address of a convent in India, Nisha starts a search for the family that she never knew. Could it be possible that she finds her birth mother and lives happily ever after following so much confusion and pain? Could she find her childhood memories and realize that she never forgot them at all?

Nisha never knew her real mother and father. The people, culture, and secrets that Nisha finds once she starts looking will change her life for good. As her eyes are opened to a side of herself that she didn’t even know was there, she realizes that she also has to look for answers to the most difficult question of all– why did this happen?

Putting together the stories of three characters, The Forgotten Daughter is an exploration into the themes that we can all relate to– identity, loss, motherhood, and more. What would you do if you loved your children more than anything? Read this novel and find out.