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A young woman struggles through a morass of unsuitable relationships, involving betrayal, danger and heartbreak, in order to find her cultural identity. Her journey takes her from India to Britain to American and back to India. Is she destined to live her life on the fringes of the communities where she grew up? Or will she finally come to terms with who she is?
The year 1999 is drawing to a close and the advent of the new millennium harbours danger, even in Oxford, that most English of cities, where a naïve but spirited Anglo-Indian student sets out on a physical and emotional quest to reassert her British identity. She is determined to find her estranged Welsh father and to escape the prospect of a safe but passionless arranged marriage in India.
Her turbulent journey takes her to Germany, Wales, New York, San Fransisco and finally back to India via a morass of perilous affiliations, betrayal and heartbreak before coming to a momentous con | |  | | Sold... to the Lady with the Lime-green Laptop!
Have you ever seen a Chinese silk iron? Or a Native American wedding vase? A wheeled brass dragon-fowl?
Laugh, weep and be amazed, as Irene Black’s photographs, descriptions and hilarious comments guide you through a hundred of her weird and wonderful eBay auction sales, some lucrative, some beautiful, others educational, most simply fun.
Sit back and enjoy – but don’t expect to make your fortune by reading this book.
Though you never know…
Please note: the book will be published in September 2007. Orders taken in advance and books will b sent out in September.
Have you ever seen a Chinese silk iron? Or a Native American wedding vase? An aeroplane kaleidoscope? A wheeled, brass dragon-fowl from…I have yet to find out. These are merely a sample of the weird and wonderful items that have come into my life since I started selling via the Internet. There are plenty of online auction-houses. I trade on the biggest of them all, eBay. The challenge is to make the items irresistible to punters through my descriptions and photos while being scrupulously honest.
It would be easy to pick out my 100 most lucrative sales, but who wants to know about anot | |  | | The Moon's Complexion
Bangalore, India 1991. Ashok Rao, a brilliant young Indian doctor, has returned home from England to choose a bride.
But who is the intriguing Englishwoman who seeks him out? Why is she afraid and what is the secret that binds them together?
The lives of two strangers are turned upside down when they meet and are threatened by the aftermath of a tragedy that touched both their lives years earlier. The Moon's Complexion is a tale of love across cultural boundaries. It is also a breath-taking thriller played out in the mystical lands of Southern India and Sri Lanka and in the icy countryside of winter England.
Extract from Chapter 7: They explored the temple site, the hot stones preventing them from lingering at each shrine for more than a minute, and then only by hopping constantly from foot to foot, until overwhelmed by the forces of nature and man, one ferocious, the other sublime, their animated spirits could barely prop up their exhausted limbs.
They came out onto the village road and hurried into the shade of a roadside workshop, where a stone carver crouched on the ground putting the finishing touches to a fist-sized, blue-grey soapstone Ganesh. Around him stood the fruits of his previous |
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