Book Title: Kilingiri
Author: Janna Gray
Release Date: May 21st 2013
Genre: Romance, Women’s Fiction, Romantic Saga, Saga
Presented by: As You Wish Tours
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.
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
He
wiped away the teardrops sliding down her cheeks and caught them on his
thumbs. Their gazes held. Then slowly, so slowly, he put his mouth to
hers, tasting more tears until her lips parted in a long sigh. The kiss
turned hot and hungry, blood pounded in his head as his hands moved down
the soft skin of her throat to her breasts. Then she heard him groan.
He pulled away from her, rolled on his back and flung his arm across his
face.
‘Shit!’
‘Hey,
hey … look at me,’ Nina pleaded, cheeks burning and insides churning
with turmoil and sweet longing. She hadn’t wanted him to stop but
understood why he had … he was breaking God knew how many Church rules
and she was as guilty as he was for encouraging him. ‘Look at me please,
Michael, don't block me out. We were consoling each other, that's all.’
She gave him a shy smile. ‘Hey, I can see a cockerel strutting around,
ready to launch into his early morning anthem, so we might as well get
ourselves sorted out for the long trek back to Srinagar.’
Leaping
to his feet, he reached out a hand to pull her to her feet. ‘Why’re you
so bloody nice? Would you mind packing my gear, please? I want a word
with Ravi about having a vasectomy.’
‘But you can't! What about Humanae Vitae?’
‘Humanae
Vitae is the refusal of the Roman Catholic Church to enter the modern
world! Ravi and Pushpa are living on the bread-line as it is, and
there's no way they can afford to feed any more hungry mouths, let alone
clothe them. None of these people can.’ His words dripped bitterness.
‘If Ravi won't agree to the chop, I'll give Pushpa the pill.’
‘That's sacrilege! A priest can't go around handing out contraceptives and bricking men!’
‘Wanna bet? Try me.’
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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Sounds like a wonderful book! Definitely on my list to read for fun.
ReplyDeleteSounds intriguing.
ReplyDeleteThanks to you both for stopping by for a look see! Appreciate it!
DeleteThank you very much for promoting Kilingiri on your blog. Really appreciate it! :)
ReplyDeleteOf course Janna - It was my pleasure. I always like hosting folks that write great stories!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a wonderful romance full of trials, tribulations and choices to be made. Count me in on this one.
ReplyDeleteKilingiri sound really good Janna. I love this kind of story.
ReplyDeleteStacey