The Zoya Factor

[1] Zoya Solanki is a client service rep with an advertising agency, who loves everything about her job, especially the brand she has been put in charge of – Zing Cola (Pepsi in a fictional avatar).

Making matters somewhat worse, the team captain Nikhil Khoda insists on discipline as a norm and cuts her important shoot short.

[2] When the men in blue realise that Zoya was born at the very moment India won the first and the only cricket World Cup in 1983, they are startled.

Pursued by international cricket boards on the one hand, and wooed by cola majors on the other, Zoya struggles to stay grounded in the thick of the World Cup action.

According to The Times Of India, "it is a fun read which takes the Indian chick-lit way beyond mush and smut, right to freakily naughty.

"[4] Apart from the novel's subject matter, cricket, that India is obsessed with, what makes the book unique in Indian publishing history is the whopping print run of 20,000 copies at the launch.