19th century
A01=Peg Kingman
Author_Peg Kingman
bagpipe music
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india
opium
quest
scottish
siblings
tea
twin brother
widow
Product details
- ISBN 9780393333558
- Weight: 554g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2008
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Catherine MacDonald is astonished to receive from her twin brother—who had apparently drowned a year earlier—a kashmiri shawl, a caddy of unusual tea, and a sheaf of traditional bagpipe music in his handwriting. When had he sent it? And why had he retitled a certain tune "Not Yet Drown'd"?
Irresistibly, she is drawn to India to search for answers. With her stepdaughter and their two maids she follows an obscure trail of clues, and in the course of their journey they meet botanists, smugglers, engineers, soldiers, and artists—as well as love and betrayal. As they grow to understand certain Scottish and Indian paintings and music, they discover unsuspected truths about the man they are seeking.
Peg Kingman is the author of The Great Unknown, Not Yet Drown’d and Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery & Freedom. She worked for many years as a technical writer and a tea merchant. She lives in northern California.
