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The Kashmir Shawl

By: Rosie Thomas
Narrated by: Nerys Hughes
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1939: Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Travelling from lonely Ladakh, high in the Himalayas, Nerys discovers a new world in the city of Srinagar.

Here, in the exquisite heart of Kashmir, the British live on carved wooden houseboats and dance, flirt and gossip as if there is no war. But the battles draw ever closer. Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship, and by the time she is reunited with her husband, the innocent Welsh bride has become a different woman.

Years later, when Mair Ellis clears out her father’s house, she finds an exquisite antique shawl which holds a lock of child’s hair. Tracing her grandparents’ roots back to Kashmir, Mair embarks on a quest that will change her life forever.

©2011 Rosie Thomas (P)2014 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Romance World Literature Marriage Heartfelt

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It took me a while to get into this book but then I was hooked! Want to visit Kashmir now. Great storyline.

Brilliant

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I was happy to give this book a five star rating as the story is really sweet and quite intricate. I like books that have and amount of truth and honesty about them and the story sounds very closable as well as being fantastic at the same time. I don't want to spoil the ending but I would love to have seen two of the characters meeting but I suppose this is part of the appeal that they didn't. Enjoy it.

An amazing story

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I had already read the book but so wished to read it again. It was beautifully narrated and I think it would make avery good film.
A beautiful story with so many depths

Magnificent

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The story was at first intriguing, but became somewhat drawn out, and not helped by a childlike narration, with inaccurate accents .

A little Disappointing

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The book gripped me from the beginning. Excellent theme, skilfully interwoven between places and years. Perfect narration befitting the story teller!
Wish I could hear it again for the first time.

An intricate woven story, of different generations

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