The Hill Line

About this book

Meera Sen, thirty eight, restores mountain railways for a living, and the Kalindri line is the commission of her career: a heritage reopening, the buried four miles to be rebuilt, the summit station reclaimed from the rhododendrons, and the line's last original steam engine, the Lady of the Hills, to be raised from her shed and steamed again. The government wants a ribbon. The tea country wants its train. Everyone wants it done by the centenary.