Daisy and Woolf'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as I sit at my writing bureau it is a soothing sound.' Mina, a writer, is navigating her place in the world, balancing creativity, academia, her sexuality, and the expectation that a wife and mother abandons herself for others. For her, like so many women of mixed ancestry, it is