For The Love of Apricots : A Novel

<p><b>A bottle of pickle a jar of apricot jam and a clump of stinging nettle—perfect ingredients for romance in sleepy Mukteshwar. </b> </p><p>Forty-year-old divorcee Nandini is something of an oddity in the Himalayan small town of Mukteshwar where she has come to settle with her absent-minded birdwatcher father. Fiercely independent strong-willed—she’s a woman you can’t take for a ride which is how she has turned a homegrown pickle-making business into a successful women’s co-operative. </p><p>When she encounters the newcomer Vikas Joshi who has recently acquired an apricot orchard sparks being to fly as a series of mishaps bring them together. It doesn’t look like this shy gentle widower and the feisty pickle producer are made for each other. But destiny deems otherwise with a little help from the villagers—and a mysterious jar of apricot jam. </p><p>Played out against the backdrop of the Kumaon Hills across wooded mountains and apricot orchards <i>For the Love of Apricots</i> is a quietly romantic humorous story about a seemingly headstrong yet vulnerable heroine and a lonely man who realize before it’s too late that love deserves a second chance. </p> <p>Warm and light-hearted yet sensitive and with an understanding of human nature at its core this is a book to celebrate love in all its unpredictable ways. </p>