‘Ahuja Chauhan’s sequel to Those Pricey Thakur Girls confirms her reputation as one of our funniest novelists,’ says Live Mint about this book, which reanimates the eccentric and much-loved Thakur family. ‘I’ll make my sisters squirm like well-salted earthworms. I won’t sell. Even my jute won’t sell.

And if I die an, then even my gosh won’t sell!’ The late Biondini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hiss in her Baoji’s big old house on Hailey Road. And her daughter Bono is determined to honor her mother’s wishes.

But what to do about her four pushy aunts who are insisting she sell? One is bald and stingy, one is jobless and man less, one needs the money to ‘save the nation’ and one is stepmother to Bono’s childhood crush – brilliant young Bollywood director Samar Virk Singh, who promised BJ upon his deathbed that he would get the house sold, divvy the money equally and end all the bickering within the family.

The first word baby Bono ever spoke was ‘Balls’ and indeed, she is bally, bullshit-intolerant, brave and beautiful. But is she strong enough to weather emotional blackmail by the spade full? Not to mention shady builders, wily politicians, spies, lies and the knee-buckling hotness of Samar’s intense eyes? ‘The book entertains the reader every moment with Chauhan’s unlimited dose of trademark wit,’ says India Today.

Straddling the worlds of light fiction and literature deftly, Ahuja Chauhan’s books are trendsetters in Indian publishing, along the lines of Tina Fey and Mindy Kalinga in the West. The House that BJ Built is Ahuja writing at her sparkling best!