Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers Sun at Midnight, Iris and Ruby and Constance. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She lives in London.
‘Beautifully constructed and written . . . A treat’ Marie Claire
‘Love, seduction, magic and illusion collide as Rosie Thomas takes
us on a spellbinding journey through an extremely shadowy world’
Daily Express Praise for The Kashmir Shawl: ‘A superbly researched
and vivid evocation of wartime Kashmir and Ladakh’ Daily Mail ‘A
spellbinding tale. Beautifully written, honest and compassionate…a
delight from start to finish’
Daily Express ‘An epic tale…A complicated entanglement of family
secrets, love during wartime and dangerous liaisons. For fans of
Maggie O’Farrell’
Red ‘A superbly written novel, marvellously descriptive and
especially evocative of the war years . . . a gorgeous treat’
Choice ‘Thomas’ portrayal of a young wife struggling to cope with
life in wartime Kashmir, her husband’s indifference to her and her
attraction to a charismatic mountaineer is beautifully written,
touching and believable’ The Daily Express
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