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Eden Gardens

Autor Louise Brown
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2015
Trade paperback. A debut novel, which will appeal to fans of Victoria Hislop and Rosie Thomas. Beginning in Calcutta, British India, in the 1940s, it tells the story of Maisy, who was never going to grow up to be a good British colonial girl.
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ISBN-13: 9781472226099
ISBN-10: 1472226097
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Headline

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A luscious, enthralling and colourful novel of India, sure to appeal to readers of Dinah Jefferies' THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE. 'Beautifully written, you can smell the spices, feel the heat, and your heart will break, you will laugh at some of the things Mam says, and cry at others, you will want a sequel' Lovereading

Shortlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown

Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa.

Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night - a disgrace to British India. All hopes are on beautiful Maisy to restore their good fortune.

But Maisy's more at home in the city's forbidden alleyways, eating bazaar food and speaking Bengali with Pushpa, than dancing in glittering ballrooms with potential husbands.

Then one day Maisy's tutor falls ill. His son stands in. Poetic, handsome and ambitious for an independent India, Sunil Banerjee promises Maisy the world.

So begins a love affair that will cast her future, for better and for worse. Just as the Second World War strikes and the empire begins to crumble...

This is the other side of British India. A dizzying, scandalous, dangerous world, where race, class and gender divide and rule.

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Faithfully researched, colourfully rendered... a vivid and compelling read
I was transported to the heat of India