Travel guide-turned-author Jill Yadav has led a life with amazing shifts. By Reshmi Chakraborty

HE was an illiterate driver from rural Haryana, she, a long-divorced mother of five grown kids. She had an upper middle class British upbringing.

He had hardly ever read a book. Jill and Yadav (whom she never calls by his first name), now together for more than seven years, discovered a bond when they first met 13 years ago. It has kept them together despite drastic differences in their backgrounds, doubts, sceptics, an initial long-distance relationship, cash crunches and relatives.

When it comes to an unlikely life, Jill Yadav’s has all the ‘masala’ of a movie. It’s been chronicled in her book ‘Yadav — A Roadside Love Story’, published earlier this year. But what’s more interesting is the author herself. She’s funny, charming and alarmingly honest.