When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station
of Ranikhet they decide it is where they will now live. After the frenetic city of Delhi Roy
is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains but then won over: spellbound
by the landscape taken to the heart of their sometimes recalcitrant neighbours and adopted by
four mountain dogs and counting. Over twenty-five years as she becomes accustomed to living
among forests where leopards roam freely she will come to encounter nature at its most fierce
captivating and vulnerable - and bear witness to the destructive impact of global warming on
the alpine ecosystem. Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya is a tender and intimate
portrait of a home a community and a rugged extraordinary landscape. Written with
unsentimental clarity humour and poignancy this is an account of profound transformations.
