Lilac Skies
By Shivani Bansal
Can she find home in a foreign land?
Punjab, India. It's 1942 and Meena is still a girl when her parents tell her she is to be married, in five days, to a total stranger. What's more, he lives in Kenya. A different country, a different continent, thousands of miles away from everything she knows. She doesn't want to marry, but with four brothers and sisters, Meena knows she will be a burden to her parents if she stays. And it isn't her decision to make.
Nairobi, Kenya. Meena's new home is beyond anything she could have imagined. Nairobi is beautiful, but tensions under the colonial British rule run high. She is told she is lucky because her husband Amar is young and handsome, but all is not as it seems within her marriage... Tucked away from the outside world, Meena spends her time by the mango tree dreaming of going home... until she realises the friendships that she forges here are all she can hold onto.
Going from girl to woman in a strange land, can Meena find a way to finally make her life her own?
Review
What a beautiful yet at the same time harrowing story. This novel really captured my attention and my heart and once started I could not put this book down, in fact, I read it long into the night. Shivani Bansal has written a masterpiece and one that the author should be justly proud of.
I thought the author really captured the historical era, it came across as very believable and it was certainly richly drawn. Likewise, the characters came across as very real in the telling.
I thought this book was wonderful from beginning to end. I highly recommend it.
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