Peacock in the Snow

by Anubha Mehta

Born to privilege and wed to her high school sweetheart Veer, a free-spirited Maya feels trapped in a conventional upper-class family with patriarchal expectations in India. Claustrophobic within the dark walls of the mansion she lives in with Veer, Maya starts living precariously through the threads of her curiosity. This curiosity leads Maya to unearth a dark family secret, a brutal ancestral murder which begins to haunt her and also affect her new marriage.
To escape the malicious spirits lingering in the house, Maya and her family immigrate to Canada to discover the rough corners, hardship, and the bounty that this adopted country offers. As Maya tries to rebuild her life amidst adventure and the struggles of settling in a new country, her relationship with Veer is tested beyond its limits. Not knowing that the ghosts of their past have followed them, in a race against time, Maya is put to a final test. She knows that the only way to overcome past wrongs was to face them. Armed with conviction and hope, Maya sets out to face the dark forces that lie await. 

Peacock in the Snow  is a one-of-a-kind genre-bending thriller about the power of an eternal love, which survives through three generations of heartbreak, across two continents, and speaks to the tireless capacity of the human spirit to love, hope, strive, and succeed despite impossible obstacles. 

 

Genres: Fiction

340 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2018

Reviews

[James Fisher]

Overall, Peacock in the Snow is an ambitious debut novel that covers a lot of ground, and it has a kind of Disney-animation feel about it, which is not a bad thing, but a few trials have a predictable outcome, while others like Veer's battling with a hungry bear, travelling to Canada's Far North, and surviving avalanches and blizzards just push the envelope of credulity further and further. Nonetheless, I would very much like to read Ms. Mehta's next novel (or short story collection), as I feel she exhibits much promise as an author.

[Cathy Williams-Thrun]

Usually if a book doesn't grab my attention in the first 20+ pages it ends up in the donation pile. With Peacock in the Snow I lost sleep. Every night for 4 nights I read until well after midnight knowing full well my alarm was set to 5am for work. I was eager to find out how Maya's journey ends. I thoroughly enjoyed this story especially my aha moment when I learned what Peacock in the Snow meant, where it derived from and the connection between India and Canada. Brilliant!!! The ending was the icing on the cake. Totally caught me by surprise.

[Shaifali Vohra]

It was really an interesting book with and interesting title and the premise and the setting was wonderful. Even though it sometimes felt diverted from the main plot but still it was wonderful and MAYA was a great protagonist.

[MasterSal]

DNF on page 18

I have borrowed this book a number of time from the library and finally sat down to read it. This time I would get through this … but I just can’t. The writing is grating ! This feels melodramatic and overwritten. I’ve sat through KU romance books but somehow here I expected more. Time to cut losses and move on. After years I don’t think this one is for me.