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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --><br />
| name = Second Thoughts<br />
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| translator = <br />
| image = SecondThoughts.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| author = [[Shobha De]]<br />
| cover_artist = <br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[English language|English]]<br />
| series = <br />
| genre = [[Novel]]<br />
| publisher = [[Penguin Books]]<br />
| release_date = 1996<br />
| media_type = Print ([[Paperback]])<br />
| pages = 296<br />
| isbn = 0-14-025567-2 <br />
| dewey= 823 21<br />
| congress= PR9499.3.D4 S43 1996<br />
| oclc= 35152014<br />
| preceded_by = [[Small Betrayals]]<br />
| followed_by = [[Selective Memory]]<br />
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'''''Second Thoughts''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Shobhaa De]].<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
''Second Thoughts'' is a love story about Maya, a pretty girl who is eager to escape her dull, middle-class home in [[Calcutta]] for the glamour of [[Mumbai]], where she moves after marriage to Ranjan, a handsome, ambitious man who has an American university degree and a wealthy family background.<br />
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Maya is determined to be the ideal wife, but finds herself trapped and stifled by the confines of her arranged marriage to a man who, she discovers, is rigidly conservative and completely indifferent to her desires. She begins to experience great loneliness in suburban Mumbai.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19960315-book-review-of-shobha-de-second-thoughts-833079-1996-03-15 | title=Book review: Shobha De's 'Second Thoughts' | date=15 March 1996 | first=Dilip | last=Bobb | publisher=India Today | accessdate=11 August 2018 }}</ref><br />
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She strikes up a friendship with Nikhil, her charming, college-going neighbor, leading to love and betrayal.<br />
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