Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

A book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author’s own watercolors.

When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Fresh from the neon-lit publishing offices of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains but then won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of the rural commu...