Only a few IFS spouses have written memoirs. Reba Som's Hop, Skip and Jump: The Peregrinations of a Diplomat's Wife and Lekha Sreenivasan's Better Half of Diplomacy come to mind and at least one more is in the pipeline. There must be more. But a thesis titled Behind Every Successful Diplomat Is Their Spouse: The Buffer Role of Indian and Pakistani Diplomatic Spouses by Sania Shahid for a US college indicates a deeper academic analysis is also warranted.
