 ", "The Shops", "Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet" and "The Thrift Book" (2008).Her novels have been translated into 28 languages.She was born to Sabiha Rumani Malik (of a family related to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement and a scholar and poet) and Michel Aertsens, the son of First World War hero Gaston Aertsens and Marie-Louise Lacroix, of the family of Belgian statesman Henri Jaspar.