The Dream That Held Us - by Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the prize winning author of The Last Vicereine (Penguin Random House), an uplifting second chance, cross-cultural story about love in middle age. What happens when the one you loved and lost returns?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>October 1985, Ash Misra leaves a blood-stained Delhi for Oxford University. Haunted by a terrible secret, he just wants to forget. Music and fresh violence bring him to fellow student and amateur violinist, Isabella Angus, but duty and the burden of history keep them apart. A quarter of a century later against the background of the global financial crisis, Sir Peter Roberts, former Master of Woodstock College, receives a letter from Ash for Isabella. They are no longer young but they had made a tryst with destiny; old terrors and suppressed desires return.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>The Dream That Held Us took me on an exquisite exploration of a love that crosses boundaries of time and culture. I didn't just read</em></p><p><em>about Isa and Ash's love, I felt it. Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang excels in making the ordinary, extraordinary. She chooses words that arouse</em></p><p><em>she senses and brings scenes to life with beautiful descriptions that flow like poetry, yet she doesn't shy away from the harsh realities</em></p><p><em>of ageing, loss and fractured relationships. This book carries a universal message about love and finding your way in the world.</em></p><p><em>I adored it.</em></p><p>Angela Barton - author of Arlette's Story, Magnolia House and You've Got My Number.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Deeply imbued with a certain wistfulness and haunting sense of loss brought out by the end of a glorious summer, this is an evocative</em></p><p><em>and delicately told story of two young people who meet at Oxford and deeply connect before being abruptly reclaimed by their different</em></p><p><em>contextual realities and imperatives. Their lives embark on very different courses - though with the passage of time it appears that monotony can be as corrosive for the soul as turmoil. Set in India, Dubai, and England, most notably at Oxford - which has been captured with great feeling and nostalgia - Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang's latest novel is a sensitive and skilful exploration of love, longing, and whether life sometimes relents to give us second chances.</em></p><p>Osama Siddique - author of Snuffing Out the Moon.</p><p><br></p><p>Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang gives us an amazing piece of work in The Dream That Held Us. The words painted on the page much as if it were a painting on canvas. The prose held me in a trance. I couldn't get enough.</em></p><p>I award The Dream That Held Us 5 out of 5 stars. Never in my life have I read a story that had me under its spell as this book has. The sheer tranquillity of it makes me sure that another book will never touch me in the same way.</em></p><p>Kimberly at My Bookish Bliss</em></p><p><br></p><p>A beautifully layered love story that is powerfully written and immensely moving, Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang's The Dream That Held Us is a nuanced and layered novel that is thought-provoking, intense and dramatic.</em></p><p>...a searing exploration of forbidden love and cross-cultural relationships written with great depth, sensitivity and compassion that is haunting, affecting and immensely poignant.</em></p><p> Julie at Bookish Jottings</em></p><p><br></p><p>This was a beautiful, moving book about a love that spans decades, taking in marriages, divorce, children and heartbreak.</em></p><p>Beautifully written and tender, this was a truly touching and sweet read.</em></p><p>Madeleine at Rambling Mads</em></p><p><br></p><p>This is an engaging story of first love betrayal and self-realisation...The romance is gentle, but the self-realisation is deeply painful, yet ultimately positive. This is an interesting story with powerful characters and fascinating detail about different cultures and time periods.</em></p><p>Julie Hunt at Jolliffe01.com</em></p><br>
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