Jasmine Skies
by Sita Brahmachari
Mira Levenson is thrilled about travelling to India to meet her grandfather's family for the first time. But when she lands in Kolkata, Mira finds herself thrown into a strange and confusing new world of sweltering heat, beauty and chaos. What's more, although she feels immediately at home with her aunt Anjali and cousin Priya, she quickly becomes aware of the presence of deeply buried secrets beneath the warm welcome her Indian family give her. Mira sets out to discover why her mother and Anjali haven't spoken for so many years - and what could have happened to drive them apart.
The answers seem to lie in a stolen letter album, and the old tumbledown family home on Doctors Lane that she is forbidden to visit. But as well as trying to unravel the truth about her family, Mira must work out how to deal with her powerful attraction to her new friend and fellow artist Janu.
Following from Brahmachari's debut novel, Artichoke Hearts, this a thoughtful, tender and uplifting novel, which continues the story of Mira, now two years older, as she negotiates challenging new experiences, the complexities of family and friendship, and the uncertainty of teenage love.
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita was born in Derby in 1966, to an Indian doctor from Kolkata and an English nurse from the Lake District. She has a BA in English Literature and an MA in Arts Education. Her many projects and writing commissions have been produced in theatres, universities, schools and community groups throughout Britain and America. Artichoke Hearts is her first novel for children. Sita lives and works in North London with her husband, three children and a temperamental cat.
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I found the book amazing it really make you think about your own history. the book was related to everyone like how we are sometimes tempted to like someone or feel a connection even though we already in a relationship and im sure we are always meddling in family problem just like Mira, so that why I like the book. sita brahmachari you are a legend
This is one of the books, which you read with pleasure as the way Sita describes Mira and her adventure is wonderful. It made me feel as if I was actually there and when the book ended I was really devastated, but hopefully the next one is on its way!
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