45 records matched your query
02350aim a22003255i 4500 001 C292FB5E518011EB89F959522CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210108011141 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 200529s2020 xx nnnn || n eng d 020 $a 0655682147 020 $a 9780655682141 : CMD 040 $e rda $d SILO 050 $a PS 082 $a 813 100 $a D'silva, Renita/ Atherton, Kristin (NRT) 245 04 $a The Orphan's Gift / Renita D'Silva. 264 1 $a Grand Haven, MI $b Brilliance Audio $c 2020. 300 $a 12 discs / 15 hours, 16 minutes $c 4 3/4 in. 520 $a 1910, India. Young and curious Alice, with her spun-gold hair, grows up in her familys sprawling compound with parents as remote as England, the cold country she has never seen. It is Raju, son of a servant, with whom she shares her secrets. Together, their love grows like roses but leaves deep thorns. Because when they get too close, Alices father drags them apart, sending Raju far away and banishing Alice to England 520 $a 1944. Intelligent and kind Janaki is raised in an orphanage in India. The nuns love to tell the story: Janakis arrival stopped the independence riots outside the gates, as the men on both sides gazed at the starry-eyed little girl left in a beautiful hand-knitted cardigan. Janaki longs for her real mother, the woman who was forced to abandon her, wrapped in a precious gift 520 $a Now old enough to be a grandmother and living alone in India, Alice watches children play under the tamarind trees, haunted by the terrible mistake she made fifty years ago. Its just an ordinary afternoon, until a young girl with familiar eyes appears with a photograph and Alice must make a choice. Will she spend the rest of her life consumed by dreams of the past, or can she admit her mistakes and choose love and light at last? 520 $a A stunning and heartbreaking novel about how a forbidden love can echo through the generations. Readers who love Lucinda Riley, Kathryn Hughes and The Storytellers Secret will be captivated. 650 $a Historical fiction $x Fiction. 650 $a India-1910 to 1944 $x Fiction. 650 $a Orphanage $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20210108011304.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C292FB5E518011EB89F959522CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search