Anuradha Roy – Called by the Hills

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Join us for an evening with Anuradha Roy, to hear her speak about her new book, Called By the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya: the captivating story of building a home and a garden on the edge of the Himalayan wilds. Written with unsentimental clarity, humour and poignancy, Called By the Hills is an account of profound transformations.

When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Leaving behind the freneticism of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains. Before long, however, she is won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of her sometimes recalcitrant neighbours, and adopted by four mountain dogs and counting.

Over twenty-five years, as Roy becomes accustomed to living among forests where leopards roam freely, she will come to encounter nature at its most fierce, beautiful and vulnerable – and bear witness to the destructive impact of global warming on the alpine ecosystem.

Anuradha Roy, is the author of five novels, including Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.