Novel

A House by the Sea

Short-listed for Amazon.ca/Books in Canada best first novel award! Told with wit and charm, Sikeena Karmali’s debut novel is about a young woman’s quest to reconcile her nomadic spirit with an inner longing for a home.

Zahra Khan crosses four continents, untangling family secrets and the fateful lives of her grandmothers. She encounters love when least expected and discovers she is not who she imagined herself to be.

East meets West, and tradition clashes with modernity in an absorbing family drama reaching back through time and generations, across Arabia, India, East Africa, England, and Canada.