Piyumi Segarajasingham is a young barrister in eighties London, half Tamil and half Sinhalese, and newly responsible for her familys share of an inheritance in Sri Lanka. The servants quarters of a house called Serendipity in Colombos colonial quarter, Cinnamon Gardens, is now her chargeshe wants to keep it, her relatives are keen to sell. So begins Piyumis journey home, full of a host of memorable characters and the hilarious happenstance of daily life in Colombo, haunted by the memory of a stranger she met back in Londonwill they ever get together? Set in a more innocent time Sri Lankas civil war had only just begunSerendipity is satire, thriller and comedy of manners all in one, told with Ferreys trademark wit.
