For The Love of Apricots

A bottle of pickle, a jar of apricot jam, and a clump of stinging

nettle-perfect ingredients for romance in sleepy Mukteshwar.

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.

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.

Played out against the backdrop of the Kumaon Hills, across wooded

mountains and apricot orchards, For the Love of Apricots 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.

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.