The Kashmir Shawl: A Novel

by Rosie Thomas

Overview

A sweeping multigenerational tale of marriage, isolation, and finding love in a magical place, The Kashmir Shawl is award-winning author Rosie Thomas at her very best.
 
Nerys’s granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father’s house and finds an exquisite shawl. Wrapped in its folds is a lock of a child’s curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace her grandparents’ roots back to Kashmir, embarking on a quest that will change her own life forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468308020
Publisher:	The Overlook Press
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rosie Thomas is the author of numerous critically acclaimed, bestselling novels, including Daughter of the House (2015), The Illusionists (2014), and Iris and Ruby (2006). She has twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Born in a small village in northern Wales, Thomas discovered a love of traveling and mountaineering when her children were grown. In the years since, she has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, and trekked in the footsteps of Shackleton on South Georgia Island.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Thomas's novels are beautifully written." --Marie Claire

 "A master storyteller." --Cosmopolitan

 "Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love."  --The Times

Editorial Reviews

"Thomas's novels are beautifully written." —Marie Claire

 "A master storyteller." —Cosmopolitan

 "Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love."  —The Times

From the Publisher