Love, loss, fate, exile- a tale of two cultures colliding in 18th-century India.
Claire Scobie is an award-winning British journalist and author who
has lived and worked in the UK, India and Australia. Her travel
memoir, Last Seen in Lhasa, won the 2007 Dolman Best Travel
Book Award. In 2017, a new memoir, A Baboon in the Bedroom,
co-authored with her mother Patricia Scobie, is being released. She
has written for numerous publications, including the Daily
Telegraph and the Observer. Through her consultancy,
Wordstruck, Claire advises companies and leaders on how to harness
the power of storytelling as a strategic business tool. She runs
writing courses in Australia, Asia and the UK, and mentors writers
one-on-one. In 2013, she completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at
Western Sydney University. The Pagoda Tree is her first
novel.
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"A novel to be savoured ... Its layering, the unravelling of the
story, the subtext of the fortunes made and lost on cotton and
silk, the evocative descriptions of saris themselves are all part
of [its] tapestry." * Sydney Morning Herald *
"Women's stories are rarely told in history, nor particularly
honoured. The Pagoda Tree offers a powerful, sensual perspective on
a time of great transformation in India." -- Sarah Macdonald,
author of HOLY COW
"Claire Scobie's seductive prose and immaculate layering of period
detail capture India at her most exotic." -- Susan Kurosawa, The
Australian travel editor and author of CORONATION TALKIES
"A rich and enthralling story handled with great skill by someone
with a profound understanding of her material." -- David Roach,
screenwriter and film director, Beneath Hill 60 and Red
Obsession
"[The Pagoda Tree] offers new ways of seeing the past." * Canberra
Times *
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