India, Jan. 16 -- This was originally supposed to be a book about flowers in the Himalayas, your home for the last 25 years. But Called by the Hills contains, well, mountains - it is many many portraits from your world in Ranikhet. You open with your first visit to the dilapidated cottage where you would eventually move in with your husband in 2000. Over the course of this small book, we're introduced to several characters. There's your housekeeper Ama, whom you call "the Ancient" with whom you engage in what can only be described as flower wars. There's your neighbour Amit who shares with you books, cuttings of plants, advice and gin. There are your dogs - particularly Jerry, your "magic dog. Fiction turned into fact" who showed up in yo...