The Road Back

Author(s): Liz Harris

Location(s): Ladakh

Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Era(s): Mid 20th Century

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When Patricia accompanies her father, Major George Carstairs, on a trip to Ladakh, north of the Himalayas, in the early 1960s, she sees it as a chance to finally win his love. What she could never have foreseen is meeting Kalden – a local man destined by circumstances beyond his control to be a monk, but fated to be the love of her life.
Despite her father’s fury, the lovers are determined to be together, but can their forbidden love survive?

A wonderful story about a passion that crosses cultures, a love that endures for a lifetime, and the hope that can only come from revisiting the past.

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Book Reviews

Lead Review

This book is hugely rich in descriptive details. It give you great insight if you wanted to travel to Tibet or the Himalayas and is good enough even if you never get there –...

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This novel has a promising beginning

This novel has a promising beginning, however for the next good third began to flag a little. The author’s picture of the father is that of a long lost generation, I think. Nevertheless, I found him to be extremely...