The Ashwood Walauwa

When Colombo architect Nayana Seneviratne inherits her grandmother’s crumbling manor house in the hills above Galle, she inherits its ash-strewn steps, its locked doors and a voice in the walls that knows her name. For a hundred and fifty years something in the Ashwood walauwa has been bargaining with her family — and now it is her turn to sit with it.