The Himalayan Summer
The heartbreaking story of a missing child and a true love
by Louise Brown
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Pub Date 9 Mar 2017 | Archive Date 23 Mar 2017
Headline | Headline Review
Description
THE HIMALAYAN SUMMER is a spellbinding novel of the British Raj period, the quest to find a child, and a love story beyond boundaries - for all fans of THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE and of Louise Brown's earlier novel, EDEN GARDENS.
'Beautifully written, you can smell the spices, feel the heat, and your heart will break. You will laugh, cry and you will want a sequel' Lovereading.com
Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie's relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating.
At a cocktail party, Ellie meets Hugh Douglas, a maverick explorer and botanist. Despite the rumours surrounding Hugh,Ellie is drawn to him. A year later, Nepal is devastated by a catastrophic earthquake and in a falling building, Ellie is forced to make an instant, and terrible, decision: she has time to save only one of her children. When she returns for her son's body the next day, it has gone. Ellie knows he cannot have disappeared; someone, somewhere has her child, and it is to Hugh that she turns for help.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781472226129 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 352 |
Featured Reviews
Sarah M, Reviewer
A wonderful saga set in the dramatic backdrop of the Himalayas starting in India through to Nepal and Tibet in the 1930's. You can feel the isolation and beauty. A great insight into the lives of the colonists during this period. Great characters written so well to love and despise. Ellie is a fantastic woman - strong and determined and literally crosses a mountain to find her child. Some lovely light moments as in the descriptions of the Nanny and some heartbreaking ones also. I loved this book and recommend to those who enjoy historical fiction.
Book B, Reviewer
This was a really evocative and insightful read into the lifestyle of British colonialists, Tibet and a region of the world that remains to many as it ever did. The journey to Nepal and Tibet is fraught with danger and evocative descriptions of what a journey must have been like. Imagine doing this as an American woman, in a world that taught women what they should and shouldn’t do. The husband controls her and she travels far and wide to do his bidding. When tragedy strikes however, you realise who the stronger person is.
The landscape and backstory to this region is very much part of the story – mysterious and a region where not many people have been to and back then it was practically mythical! To venture here and then to lose a child, then the search for that child was an epic story, full of emotion and suspense. How far would you go to find your child? Across mountains in Tibet?
It was a very visual read and I was captivated by the dust and heat of the pages, and I swear I could see the views as the novel peaked. A journey into the unknown and I feel I’ve discovered something new about this mysterious region now.
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