Come
Back, Judy Baba: Memoirs of India is the story of
two brave women.
In 1948, Mary Hargreaves
Norbury moved from Vancouver, British Columbia, to a small village near
Mirzapur in northern India to marry an English carpet manufacturer. This
is her fascinating account of life as a post-Raj Memsahib. Mary gave birth
to two daughters at the Mussoorie hill station. When her eldest daughter,
Judy, contracted polio, the family moved back to Canada.
Judy’s memoir picks up the
story, recalling her year in a children’s hospital, painful therapy and
a trip to Lourdes. Undaunted by polio, she grew up to be a mother and a
successful singer-songwriter. After more than forty years, she returned to
India in search of the little girl she’d been.
Mary Hargreaves Norbury lives
in North Vancouver. Judy Norbury lives on Vancouver Island, British
Columbia where she writes, gardens, sings and plays guitar and Appalachian
Mountain dulcimer. Visit her website at www.judynorbury.com.
