by Sara Banerji (Author)

Above them the great rock bulged out like a too clever forehead, too clever for anything to grow upon, too smooth for anyone to climb... It might be the only place on earth which is so high and difficult to get to, that people can't reach it.

When Sangita the Ranee of Bidwar is caught up in a scandal, her husband banishes her from the palace and forbids access to their young son, Anwar. She lives miserably as a disgraced woman, praying to Ganesh for Anwar to be taken from her husband, so that he would know her suffering. Then, Anwar goes missing.
In a hill-tribe far above the palace, on land impenetrable to man, the young males are dying. When they come across a Coarseone - a child from civilisation below - they use him to create a new life: their new Maw, their king.

Author Biography

The daughter of novelist Anita Mostyn, Sara Banerji was born in England but spent part of her childhood in the African bush. She later moved back to England, where she met her future husband, an Indian-born undergraduate studying at Oxford University. After they married, the pair moved to India; they spent the first seventeen years of their married life in the South Indian Hills tea planting and bringing up three daughters. During that time Sara rode as a jockey on the flat and held exhibitions of her paintings in Madras and Delhi. She and her family now live in Oxford.

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