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Book SynopsisThrough her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives.
Trade Review'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition...
a writer well worth reading.' * The Times *
A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora...
Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal history... Evocative... Gripping. * Financial Times *
In spare, occasionally lyrical prose,
The Lost Homestead meticulously tells the story of her much-loved Sikh-born mother. -- Sonia Purnell * Evening Standard *
Her poignant memoir reminds us that our past shares no borders with our present. -- F.S. Aijazuddin * Dawn *
