Böcker av Hena Prashad

Life is challenging and often it can feel as though everything and everybody is against us. Feelings of gloom are overwhelming.Hena Prashad knows and understands these feelings of despair, and she suggests that hope and a life in balance can offer a way forward.In Before The Harvest, she illustrates how we can achieve balance in our lives, and how we can all achieve a sense of fulfilment and wellbeing.

This is an extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman named Mary. In spite of the dire, treacherous circumstances she was born into, and the rejection and abandonment by her mother when she was still very young, Mary develops an unerring resilience to the brutality of poverty. Her remarkable strength of character sees her combating feelings of helplessness to change her life's fortunes. A courageous and bold woman, Mary also has a soft heart. She gathers a family of 12 abandoned children living in desperate conditions on the streets of Mumbai and nurtures them to walk side by side with her on the journey out of the doom.Then Gopal enters her life. A trustworthy and supportive friend, who offers Mary and her children kindness and generosity.In this story Mary demonstrates the importance and power of family bonds and how much hard work and planning goes into raising a family.

A life of challenges, upheavals and enduring family love is revealed in this inspiring account. With focus and determination and absolute faith in her creator, Hena Prashad crosses continents - from her birth in Bombay to her current home in Sweden - and turns every obstacle and disadvantage into an opportunity.