Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives.
A personal account of a family's experience of the ramifications of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. Touches on themes of politics, religion and identity that resonate today.
Her poignant memoir reminds us that our past shares no borders with our present.