Juliet Philip is an award-winning author. Her debut novel, The Runaway Daughter is a magical realism novel, published in the US and released in India as The Prostitute's Daughter tells the story of an imaginative sixteen-year-old heroine Kamada. Kamada has a big dream to emigrate to the United States. Her mother, a well paid prostitute wants Kamada to follow her footsteps but Kamada, uses magic as her reprieve to make her dream to escape come true.