Thousand Painted Hours

Barbara O’Neal is the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of twenty novels of women’s fiction, including the #1 Amazon Charts bestseller When We Believed in Mermaids, as well as The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth, Memories of the Lost, This Place of Wonder, and The Starfish Sisters. Her award-winning books have been published in more than two dozen countries. She lives on the wild Oregon Coast with her husband, a British endurance athlete who vows he’ll never lose his accent. For more information, visit www.barbaraoneal.com.

Praise for A Thousand Painted Hours“A lush and colorful look at the first half of the twentieth century—and the colonial politics that played out as world wars raged—through the eyes of a British artist born in India who longs, during the Blitz in London, to return to the town that holds her heart in the foothills of the Himalayas. Those hungry for epistolary novels will enjoy Barbara O’Neal’s A Thousand Painted Hours, written largely in letters of love, regret, and duty that span continents and decades.” —Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author“From the forested hills of India to the bomb-scarred streets of London to the searing heat of Cairo, A Thousand Painted Hours is a colorful, transportive, and heartrending novel. In a sweeping tale of friendship and love through the ages, O’Neal grabs her readers by the heart and doesn’t let go. Not to be missed!” —Heather Webb, USA Today bestselling author of The Hope Keeper“Highly recommended.” —Historical Novel Society“A vivid and moving portrait of the love of a lifetime, spanning decades and continents, and transcending the strictures of society, global politics and war.” —Fiona Valpy, author of The Sky Beneath Us