Mimi Correia-Afonso Desai

Biography

Mimi Correia-Afonso Desai was born in 1932 in Goa, at that time Portuguese India, where she spent her childhood and teenage years. She qualified as a doctor from Bombay University and worked in India, Tanzania, and then England where she now lives.

Her interests are geology, travel, languages, ancient history and knitting. She has three children and six grandchildren. This is her second book.

Books

The Very Catholic Childhood of Licia F de A
Price: $7.50 USD. Words: 40,990. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
From an upper-class, staunchly Indian-Catholic family in Portuguese India, Mimi Correia-Afonso Desai’s memories of her childhood in Goa in the 1930s inspire this story of Licia Fontes de Almida. It is a little girl’s journey, losing and finding her way - determinedly in her own way – as she grows up despite a very Catholic childhood.

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