Rumer Godden

The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in “one of the greatest horse books ever written. . . . Moving, and highly original” (Lauren St. John, author of The White Giraffe).
 
In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses belonging to wealthy owners, and Mother Morag, who lives just down the road and leads a group of nuns working with Calcutta’s poor, loves...

Lawyer Michael Dean is sent from London to India, the land of his birth to investigate the theft of an 11th century statue of the Hindu god Shiva. The assignment leads him into a romance with a woman archeologist. A look at Hindu culture.

Anglican Sisters are sent to a remote community in the Himalayas to establish a convent.