As he frets over the guns, the major’s friendship with Jasmina Ali-the Pakistani widow of the local food shop owner-takes a turn unexpected by the major (but not by readers). While the major is eager to reunite the pair for tradition’s sake, his son, Roger, has plans to sell the heirloom set to a collector for a tidy sum. As the novel opens, the major is mourning the loss of his younger brother, Bertie, and attempting to get his hands on Bertie’s antique Churchill shotgun-part of a set that the boys’ father split between them, but which Bertie’s widow doesn’t want to hand over. Ernest Pettigrew, an honor-bound Englishman and widower, and the very embodiment of duty and pride. “In her charming debut novel, Simonson tells the tale of Maj.
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