SANDALWOOD and JASMINE

By Ahad Abbas

Sandalwood and Jasmine follows a British Pakistani girl named Ayesha who feels detached after the death of her great grandfather, as she was never close to him. While her mother is consumed by grief, Ayesha struggles to understand her sorrow. Hoping to lift her spirits, the family decides to travel to Pakistan. During her stay, Ayesha comes across her great grandfather's diary and uncovers a hidden and forbidden love story from the time of the British Raj. The diary reveals the relationship between Omar Sheikh, a Muslim boy from an upper middle class family, and Veer Singh, a Sikh boy from a working class background, forever changing Ayesha's understanding of her family and its past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1919450505
• ISBN13: 9781919450506
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Ahad Abbas
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

First in its Genre; A Pioneering Masterpiece

This book has touched me in places no other book has reached before. It is utmost romantic and humbling in its message of religious, racial, gender, and ethnic unity. The story is so raw and authentic, written with an anthropological and artistic understanding that it could truly be believed as real. Although other books have promised to break me, none has left me in so many tears and an everlasting ache in my heart.