
For fans of The Tea-Planter's Wife & Victoria Hislop comes a gripping story of doomed love & secrets in 1940s Kashmir Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime In 1938 young bride Nerys Watkins accompanies her missionary husband on a posting to India Up in Srinagar the British live on beautiful wooden houseboats & dance & gossip as if there is no war But when the men are sent away to fight Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship Years later when Mair Ellis clears out her father's house she finds an antique shawl with a lock of child's hair wrapped up in its folds Tracing her grandparents' roots back to Kashmir Mair uncovers a story of great love & great sacrifice