Kilingiri
Janna Gray
Release Date: May 21st 2013
Romance, Women’s
Fiction, Romantic Saga, Saga
Publisher: GMTA Publishing, LLC
Presented by: As You Wish Tours
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With exotic
locations richly painted, Kilingiri, a saga of love and loss with its many
painful twists and turns, proceeds like beads threaded on silk until the circle
is completed.
BLURB
1968, Srinagar, Kashmir and Nina is devastated by the death
of her new-born baby girl.
Sister Angela and Father Michael at the mission hospital
step in to nurse Nina back to health
but when the friendship between Nina and Father Michael
turns to love, Michael makes a
decision which will resonate through the years.
It is 1981 and in Kinsale, Ireland, Nina, devoted to her son
Joshua, lives a loveless existence,
but a chance encounter changes everything. Michael is back
in her life, he leaves the
priesthood and happiness is within their grasp.
But when past and present collide, their whole world is
turned upside down.
Only by facing the consequences of what has gone before, can
Nina and Michael embrace
the future.
Janna Gray guides us masterfully through this poignant story
of love, loss, betrayal and
hope.
EXCERPT
The clinic, set in a fenced compound, was comprised of four
white-washed mud and stone buildings and the most basic of medical equipment.
Day after day the ill and the maimed queued with infinite patience to see
Father Michael, firm in the belief he would cure their ailments. Nina marvelled
at his ability to communicate with his patients in their own language, smiling
when cantankerous old men berated him with shaking fists, soothing fractious,
snotty-nosed babies and advising anxious mothers. She helped him dispense his
meagre supply of pills and potions, cleaned suppurating sores and bandaged
wicked wounds. Initially all the blood and pus made her want to throw up and
she had to force herself not to gag when faced with open wounds crawling with
maggots which he assured her were a cheaper, albeit revolting alternative, to
antibiotics. But, after a couple of days she became a pro at removing embedded
stones from puffy, angry-red flesh and even managed to sew up several gashes
with stitches the nuns at the convent school in Ascot would have been proud of.
‘How do these people cope when you aren't here?’ she asked
one evening, over a simple meal of rice and dhal.
‘Jaishree and Sushila – the two women who were helping out
today – do the honours. They've learned a lot from Sister Angela over the last
couple of years and are pretty competent unless there's an emergency.’
‘What happens then? What if they’re faced with a situation
that’s beyond their capabilities?’
Michael pushed aside his tin plate and lit a cigarette.
‘They do what they can, Nina. If they can't cope, the patients die. It's as
simple as that. Out here in the boonies the sick rely on Jaishree and Sushila
and God ... when he can tear Himself away from the Vatican.’
AUTHOR BIO
Janna Gray grew up in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and was educated at
boarding schools in
Kodaikanal, South India and Derbyshire, England. She trained
to be a teacher in London
where she met and married her husband Simon. His job took
them to Singapore, Hong Kong
and Thailand where she raised two sons, worked at British
and International schools and
wrote articles for newspapers and magazines.
Currently living in the UAE, Janna was the Senior Mistress
(a title which caused much
merriment among her colleagues!) and Head of Pastoral Care
at Repton School before
trading her marking pens and report cards for the world of
writing novels. She enjoys
travelling and sailing and had a love-hate relationship with
exercise until she discovered
the joy of Zumba where the trainers turn a blind eye to her
inability to remember dance
sequences. She sings in the shower and with choirs, has an
allergy to golf and recently
discovered the allure of oils and acrylics – a delightfully
messy way to express her inner
artist.
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