A Suitable Boy; (Perennial Classics) by Vikram Seth.

I read it when away, and it brought back the atmosphere of small town India, here taken in centre and Calcutta but the centre can be easily changed to another part.

One factor that one kept on thinking of - and finally it happened - was about the testimony of the victim not against the accused who is a friend, freeing him, when he has understood a few things.

Another point remarkable was a very mature reasoning and decision by the young woman, not for the sake of society but for her own peace, having seen something in herself she was not willing to live with.

Very readable no doubt, and more.