Manisha Patel is a single, second-generation Indian woman living alone in London. Like many women today, Manisha is educated, attractive, and caring. Also like many women today she is unmarried-and growing older, fast.

As Manisha seeks her soul mate, her "one in a million," she must confront complex inner emotions including the fear of disappointing her large extended family through her choice of husband.

She must endure the frenetic collision of culture clashes, heartbreaks, and romantic exuberance in order to understand herself and to find the one she loves.

Jesvir Kaur Mahil has recently published her new personal development novel about relationships entitled Finding the One in a Million. Born in Mahil Gaila, Panjab, Jesvir emigrated as a child to Stafford, England, with her parents and siblings in the late '60s.

Stories can serve us as mirrors in which we may self-reflect. She says the story of 'Finding the One in a Million' is meant to evoke such self-reflection through a variety of common questions and concepts currently popularised by the personal development industry.

Rejecting the rules, customs and traditions of our parents and ancestors can leave us with an aching emptiness of spirit, which disturbs the mating instinct, the maternal instinct, and the most fundamental human instinct of all; the instinct to love itself.

The author currently resides in London, UK and is the Director of University for Life, www.universityforlife.com.

Although she writes from the point of view of a successful professional, second-generation immigrant in Britain, the questions she raises in her novel will resonate with all who must adapt to a life that is different from that of their parents: Where have I come from? Where am I now? Where am I going?

The turmoil and conflict of the protagonists in Finding the One in a Million illustrates the identity confusion of second and third generation immigrants. In the broader sense, it echoes the quest for personal happiness and satisfaction of an ever-increasing number of soul-searchers across the world.

A review by author Ellen Tanner Marsh said Jesvir Mahil "perfectly captures the essence of this demographic in her charming new novel".

The book is available on Amazon.co.uk and can be ordered from Waterstones.

Jesvir Mahil can be contacted at Jesvir@universityforlife.com.