The Sky Beneath Us av Fiona Valpy

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<p><b>An inspiring, uplifting story of love and loss, courage and adventure, from the bestselling author of <i>The Skylark’s Secret</i>.</b></p><p>1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she’s left behind in Scotland.</p><p>2020. Daisy Laverock has dreamed of retracing the footsteps of her great-great-aunt Violet ever since discovering her long-lost journals, whose accounts of plant hunting in the 1930s inspired Daisy’s own career. Divorced, and facing an empty nest, Daisy decides to embark on the trip of a lifetime. She arrives in Nepal, ready to start trekking in the shadow of Everest. But fate, and the pandemic, have other plans.</p><p>Stranded and alone, Daisy must fall back on the kindness of strange