Description
Magda is a former scientist with a bad temper and a sharp tongue, living alone in a huge house by the sea. Confined to a wheelchair, her once spotless home crumbling around her, she goes through caregivers quickly.
Until Susheela arrives, bursting through the doors of Magda's house, carrying life with her: grief for her mother's recent death; worry for her father; longing for a beautiful and troubled young man.
The two women strike up an unlikely friendship: Magda's old-fashioned, no-nonsense attitude turns out to be an unexpected source of strength for Susheela; and Susheela's Bengali heritage brings back memories of Magda's childhood in colonial India and of her mother, Evelyn, struggling to fit within the suffocating structure of the Raj.
But as Magda digs deeper into her past, she unlocks a shocking legacy of blood that threatens to destroy the careful order she has imposed on her life--or that might just be the key to give the three women, Evelyn, Magda and Susheela, a place they can finally call home.
Info
ISBN: 9781474609432
Published Date: January 1, 2019
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Language: English
Page Count: 366
Size: 9.34" l x 6.27" w x 1.52" h
Category
Fiction