Up Sigiriya with Kitkat by Goolbai Gunasekara

Following It’s the Escalator I Can’t Manage, this is the second in the series of witty, funny and eminently readable sketches which were first published as a weekly column in The Daily News of Sri Lanka some years ago. The tales from Up Sigiriya With KitKat range from the author’s school and university days to stories of her ebullient granddaughter, KitKat. Her own life as the daughter of two highly erudite parents – one from America and the other from India – is amusingly and light heartedly written, but always with deep affection. Goolbai Gunasekara has the rare ability to laugh at herself and to poke fun at the goings-on of a variety of situations, be they climbing the Sigiriya Rock, Cocktail Parties of Colombo, Teachers of Goolbai’s time or the touching Miracle of Christmas with which this book concludes.