Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

<p style="padding: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">'[A] superb family history that teems with historical colour and details that both fascinate and shock …&nbsp;<span class="a-text-italic" style="font-style: italic !important;">Broken Threads</span>&nbsp;is a calm and compassionate tale; but it also offers an accessible primer on a little-understood area of recent world history’<span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;">DAILY TELEGRAPH</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘Mishal Husain weaves an intricate family web that catches all the hope and optimism, as well as the tragedy and disappointment of the birth of Pakistan and independent India in 1947. With clarity, warmth and profound sympathy, as well as some brilliant archival detective work, she performs a fascinating act of reconstruction’&nbsp;<span class="a-text-bold" style="font-weight: 700 !important;">WILLIAM DALRYMPLE</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘At times this book feels like vital history, which just happens to read like a great novel. At other times, it reads like a novel that just happens to inform us about great history’<span class="a-text-bold" style="font-weight: 700 !important;">&nbsp;SATHNAM SANGHERA</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘The most important and accessible book I have ever read about the days leading up to and surrounding the partition of India. I read it as one would a thriller, a page-turner; a fabulous achievement by a skilled writer, packed with facts but floating like a butterfly’<span class="a-text-bold" style="font-weight: 700 !important;">&nbsp;JOANNA LUMLEY</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">'A love story and an extraordinary personal journey set against some of the greatest upheavals of the 21st century … As moving as it is important’&nbsp;<span class="a-text-bold" style="font-weight: 700 !important;">PETER FRANKOPAN</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘An unflinching portrait of a family splintered by partition. Husain’s beautifully written family memoir examines the shared trauma that so many families like hers endured, finding hope and compassion in one of South Asia’s darkest chapters’&nbsp;<span class="a-text-bold" style="font-weight: 700 !important;">JEMIMA KHAN</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘The play between darkness and light, the assiduous research and emotional literacy makes&nbsp;<span class="a-text-italic" style="font-style: italic !important;">Broken Threads</span>&nbsp;one of the best books ever on the epochs that shaped three nations. A triumph’&nbsp;<span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;">i News</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: &quot;Amazon Ember&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘You’ll be utterly enchanted by this meticulously researched story’&nbsp;<span class="a-text-bold" style="font-weight: 700 !important;">JON SOPEL</span></p>