I’ve been lucky and read a few great books that make excellent use of dual POVs recently. Dual or multiple POVs are one of my favourite techniques, it always just adds so much more richness and complexity to a book. 

In The Space Between Us, we hear from Bhima and Sera, the former a servant to the latter. The power dynamic between the two is both interesting and heartbreaking. They often consider themselves ‘friends’ but Sera is Parsi and does not allow Bhima to drink from her regular glassware or sit on her furniture, and is of course paying Bhima every time they’re together. 

Their closeness is threatened by a life-changing event within their respective families however, and it’s then that the true dynamics of class and gender come out to play. 

There are a lot of tough topics tackled within this pages (check the content warnings), but I thought Umrigar handled them brilliantly, and I will definitely be on the lookout for book two in this duology.