A heartbreaking story about the pursuit of passion by the bestselling
author of The Chocolate Tin.
Dr Isla Fenwick has a life that most modern women of 1933 might envy -
her career gives her status, her pedigree adds freedom and her oldest
crush, Jovian Mandeville, has reappeared in her life with a marriage
proposal. Her life is beginning to feel complete.
However, she insists on keeping a private promise she made to her late
mother to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to
life as a dutiful wife. With Jove's blessing, Isla sails to Calcutta to
set up a new midwifery clinic. What she can't anticipate is how India
will test everything she relies upon within, challenging her
professionalism and her loyalties.
But it is the fateful meeting of enigmatic Professor Saxon Vickery that
will call into question what she trusts most about herself. When the
pair travel into the foothills of the Himalaya for a stay on a tea
plantation outside Darjeeling, Isla must make the most important choice
of her life. And at the roof of the world - where heaven and earth
collide - a price will be exacted for glimpsing heaven.
