SYNOPSIS
When Kamla Malik’s husband Nihar dies of a heart attack in Goa, she’s devastated. Haunted by the lack of closure, she tries mediums, séances, and Ouija boards to help her establish contact. All she wants is a final goodbye. She tries to find him in the twisted labyrinthine worlds that he now inhabits, but does she really want him back, and worse, if she finds him, will he let her go? Or is she, as the doctors believe, living in the tunnels of her mind, making it impossible for her to distinguish hallucination from reality? Coincidentally, her eccentric and ailing maternal aunt invites her to visit at her splendidly isolated and crumbling villa in Goa. Here, Kamla meets Victor, her aunt’s stepson. He stakes his claim over the villa and with it, over Kamla. While she accepts that Victor is her here and now, why does Nihar continue to torment her? Is she doomed to be forever haunted by him? An exquisitely sinister tale of bereavement and the grey lands between the dead and the living, both within the mind and outside of it, More Things in Heaven and Earth is the horror of what happens when love, obsession and betrayal collide.
MY THOUGHTS
“𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑰 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔, 𝒊𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑. 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆’𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆.”
The story revolves around Kamla Malik, 33 year old who lost her husband, Nihan died of a heart attack. Kamla is a kind of person who always tried to fit in but her husband wanted her to stand out. When Nihan died, Kamla wasn’t around him since he was away from home. All she wants is to say a final goodbye to Nihan and in order to do that she tries mediums, séances, and Ouija boards to help her establish contact.Without revealing much about the story, I would recommend you to read it.
I have read a lot of Indian authors as a teenager but I was stunned by @kiranmanral ‘s writing style. At times, I find it hard to get into a novel but I must say that the initial chapters were amazing… There was some magic in the writing style. I was literally hooked from the very first page. It took me just a couple of days to finish this. Now I am wondering why I never read books by Kiran ma’am. But I am definitely going to pick more novels by her now.
Thank you for the review copy @amaryllispublishing
A Book and A Dream 