Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence

by Mishal Husain

The title implies this is a family memoir against a dramatic historical backdrop. It is – and much more. Mishal Husain’s painstaking research allows us to share a view onto the tumult in the Indian sub-continent, before, during and after the end of British colonial rule. The threads of her family’s histories weave with those of Partition. They are as relevant and current as ever and show us what the enduring conflict arising from those times means to human life. It’s painful as well as painstaking. It’s beautiful.