Not Yet Drown'd

Catherine MacDonald is astonished to receive from her twin brother who had apparently drowned a year earlier in the monsoon floods of 1821 a kashmiri shawl a caddy of unusual tea and a sheaf of traditional bagpipe music in his handwriting. When had he sent it? And why had he retitled a certain tune Not Yet Drown'd? Irresistibly she is drawn to India to search for answers. With her stepdaughter and their two maids one an enigmatic Hindu the other a runaway American slave she follows an obscure trail of tea opium and bagpipe music discovering unsuspected truths about the man she is seeking. Reading group guide included.