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From award victor Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Evenings, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly catches the lives of three young women on their way to a fresh life in India during the 1920s.
As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs about anchor for Bombay in the fall of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a faraway land. They may be area of the “Angling Fleet”—the name given to the legions of English women who sail to India every year searching for husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to view over three unsettling charges. There’s Rose, as beautiful as she actually is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she's met only couple of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on getting rid of her virginity en route before locating a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of your disturbed schoolboy named Dude Glover.
From the functions of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Block, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel chat of the Bombay Yacht Team, East of the Sunlight can take us back to a world we hardly understand but yearn to know. That is a reserve that has it all: glorious detail, fascinating heroes, and masterful storytelling.
