Arjun Pandita and Chitrangada Raina foolishly fall in love in the politically volatile Kashmir in the 1980s and abandon all practicality and logic to be together. Twenty years later, their marriage is falling apart.

Meera, their eighteen-year-old daughter has first-hand received the brunt of her parents’ rotting love. But when her father gets into an accident after an argument at home, Meera struggles through life and therapy, tracing her family’s dereliction back to their exile from Kashmir. She also falls in love with the mysterious Dev Mathur, a devastatingly handsome drug addict.

The novel travels through the tempestuous years of the family and its members’ lives, unveiling the interwoven tapestry of their past: years stained and disfigured by death and resentment, but also full of unyielding love and hope.

Orchard of Love is a saga divided into three parts: The Chinar Tree, The Apricot Tree and The Jacaranda Tree, in which a family tries to navigate the distance between them — exploring treacherous emotions, young love, and a decades-old love of a marriage that’s on the verge of crumbling to the ground.