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Born in Bangalore, India, Isla grew up on a tea plantation managed by her father. She spent her early years in the lush hills of Kerala with her much loved older sister Fiona. This warm, spice-scented idyll was abruptly ended when, obliged by tradition, her parents sent Isla and her sister ‘home’ to boarding school. ‘Home’ was cold, gloomy, post-war austerity Scotland; an alien land where for several years she nursed an astonishing secret.