Flowers for the Bees

Kuljit buries her infant daughter in the Ganges mud flats, hoping that the stain of the murder can be removed, whilst a few miles away (although it may as well be a thousand) Gwendolen makes love to her upper-class fool of a husband, the British Consul, all the time thinking of the Indian maid with the tiger claw mark on her neck. Little do both women know - across the cultural divide - that life is about to take a significant turn for the worse. Set amidst the chaos of Indian independence from Britain in 1947, Paul Haston's novel is a story of karma and how the love of two women cannot escape the shadows of their past. Long listed for the 2016 Exeter Novel Prize.