After their mother's death, Mair and her siblings are left to clear out the house that had been her parents home in Wales and where she'd been brought up. I've been through this process myself and I know what it can be like. You find all sorts of things that make you wonder and about the story behind them. And this is what happened to mair.
She found a beautiful Kashmir pashmina shawl with a lock of dark brown hair and these led her to try to discover their story and that of her grandmother.
The story is told both from the perspective of Mair and of her grandmother who had left rural Wales to set off for a life as a missionary's wife in India and then in Kashmir. Mair attempted to follow in her footsteps and so we see the region both as it was during the time of the British Raj before independence and more recently.
I thoroughly enjoyed the story even though it was a little overly romantic for my taste and the plot a bit contrived, but the descriptions of the area and the mental images they conjured up will stay with me a long time.
An article comparing The Kashmir Shawl and A Carpet Ride to Khiva.
The Kashmir Shawl
is available on Amazon.comand also on Amazon UK
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