The Kashmir Shawl
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Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time in her life, to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. As war engulfs Europe,
… More »Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love. Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time in her life, to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. As war engulfs Europe, the Watkins are in remote Ladakh, high up in the Himalayas. Nerys is lonely, but she makes a glamorous new friend, Myrtle McMinn, who introduces her to the lakeside city of Srinagar.
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Add a CommentI loved this book, I have never been to Kashmir but reading this book I felt I have seen kashmir.
My mother loved this book but I did not find it as engaging and it was also a bit predictable. Not to me as good as her usual efforts.
A nice read. I had to read to the end to find out what happened so did not get much sleep! It is two parallel stories, a grandmother's and a granddaughter's. Nerys was a newly married young woman who went out to India with her missionary husband. Mair the granddaughter,decades later, discovers an exquisite shawl and a lock of child's hair tucked inside it hidden in back of a drawer of an old dresser in her late father's house. Mair decided to go to India to trace her grandparent's roots and find out the secrets and mystery surrounding her grandparents. It also includes a fascinating history of the handmade shawl making industry.