Justine Hardy is a journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who has spent much of the past fifteen years living in India. With her American debut, The Wonder House, Hardy has crafted an unforgettable love story set in one of the most beautiful and broken places in the world, Kashmir. On Nagin Lake sits moored a houseboat called The Wonder House, on which a toug Justine Hardy is a journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who has spent much of the past fifteen years living in India. With her American debut, The Wonder House, Hardy has crafted an unforgettable love story set in one of the most beautiful and broken places in the world, Kashmir. On Nagin Lake sits moored a houseboat called The Wonder House, on which a tough old Englishwoman, Gracie Singh, has been living out her widowhood since the death of her Indian husband. She has molded herself a new family with two Kashmiri women, mute Suriya and her lovely, educated daughter, Lila, who tend to Gracie in her dotage. From The Wonder House Gracie has watched the valley become brutally disfigured by Pakistan and Indias drawn-out clash over this coveted territory - just as she has watched her best friend and landlord, Masood Abdullah, change from a jeans-wearing, flirtatious young man to an anxious father hemmed in by growing Islamic orthodoxy. Soon after Masoods nephew disappears to join an extremist militant group, Hal, a journalist from England, comes to interview Gracie. No one anticipates Hals infatuation with Lila, the intensity of which threatens to destroy The Wonder House and its inhabitants.