… a moonlit night in Colombo, a Sinhalese girl, a Tamil boy and a secret love which would cut them off from their families and cast them into exile. Until now. Their daughter, Roma Tearne, explains what happened next. From The Guardian:
My mother was born in Sri Lanka on March 18 1920. Seventy-five troubled years later, in the early hours of a September morning in 1995, I received a phone call from a London hospital informing me of her death. Until that dawn call that changed everything forever, I had not imagined life without her. She had gone to bed as usual the night before, but suffered a massive heart attack.
Later that morning, I went back to the house and found her orange court shoes, turned inwards towards each other. They were left exactly as she had stepped out of them for the last time.
[Bone China by Roma Tearne is published by HarperCollins]
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