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The Wonder House
The Wonder House
Author: Justine Hardy
Justine Hardy is an English journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who's spent much of the past fifteen years living in India. Her American debut, The Wonder House, has crafted an unforgettable love story set in the turbulent region of Kashmir, one of the most beautiful and broken places in the world. — On Nagin Lake sits moore...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802118226
ISBN-10: 0802118224
Publication Date: 3/7/2006
Pages: 386
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Publisher: Grove Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Three women live on The Wonder House , a boat moored on Nagin Lake and carved from from the great cedars that watch over the Kashmir Valley. Suriya is mute and carries a terrible secret. Her daugther , Lila, wants to escape the past and live a differnt kind of life. But together, they tend to Gracie a defiant Yorkshirewoman living out her widowhood by the lake. A military coup over the border brings violence crashing back into the Valley . When an english journalist arrives to report on the conflict , Gracie invites him to stay on The Wonder House. But Hal is a man adrift and his love for one of the women threatens more than just the fragile peace on the houseboat.


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