The Road Back

'A wonderful story of an illicit affair in Ladakh (a territory west of Tibet) in the 1950s. There is some terrific cultural detail in a splendid read.' The Bookseller



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, Patricia and Kalden are determined to stay 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.



'A splendid love story, so beautifully told.' Colin Dexter, O.B.E., author of the Inspector Morse novels.