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Also by Barbara O'Neal:

A Thousand Painted Hours, August 2026
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The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth, July 2025
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Memories of the Lost, July 2024
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The Scent of Hours, June 2024
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A Piece of Heaven, April 2024
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No Place Like Home, April 2024
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The Starfish Sisters, September 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Write My Name Across the Sky, August 2021
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
When We Believed in Mermaids, July 2019
Paperback / e-Book
The All You Can Dream Buffet, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
How To Bake A Perfect Life, January 2011
Trade Size
The Secret of Everything, January 2010
Paperback
The Lost Recipe For Happiness, January 2009
Trade Size

A THOUSAND PAINTED HOURS
By: Barbara O'Neal

Lake Union Publishing
August 2026
On Sale: August 11, 2026
Featuring: Elsie Turner; Tanveer Singh
543 pages
ISBN: 1662514964
EAN: 9781662514968
Kindle: B0G66WJ5YX
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Romance Historical | Multicultural Indian | Historical

An epic, emotionally charged novel about love, art, and survival spanning 1900s colonial India to Blitz-era London by the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids.

In the shadow of the London Blitz, artist Elsie Turner clings fiercely to her canvases, refusing to let war dim the colors that define her. The bombs test her nerve, but the struggle also stirs memories of her golden youth in India and of the long-lost love of her life.

The daughter of a British civil servant in the Himalayan station of Nainital, Elsie crosses cultural divides to forge an unlikely bond with Tanveer Singh, a Sikh prince with hopes, dreams, and far-reaching ideas. What begins as shared sketchbooks and stargazing becomes first love and a secret correspondence. When Elsie’s father is summoned to England, Elsie is severed from the world she knows—and is determined to preserve it through both her art and a connection with Tanveer that endures through the most tumultuous years of their lives.

Across four decades and two continents, Elsie navigates a journey from lush colonial India to war-torn London, amid landscapes of beauty, protest, and peril. As past and present collide, the most impossible choices and sacrifices are yet to be made in the name of love, war, and survival.