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Eden Gardens: The unputdownable story of love in an Indian summer
Louise Brown
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Description for Eden Gardens: The unputdownable story of love in an Indian summer
Paperback. British India. The heart of Calcutta. Two women searching for freedom. For fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472226099
SKU
V9781472226099
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99-10
About Louise Brown
Louise Brown has lived in Nepal and travelled extensively in India, sparking her enduring love of South Asia. She was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she worked for nearly twenty years. In research for her critically acclaimed non-fiction books she's witnessed revolutions and even stayed in a Lahore brothel with a ... Read more
Reviews for Eden Gardens: The unputdownable story of love in an Indian summer
Faithfully researched, colourfully rendered... a vivid and compelling read
Sunday Irish Independent
Sunday Irish Independent