I first read this novel as a teenager at school, in the middle of studying the Indian Independence movement. My mother had read the abridged version in the 1950s, and in the 1980s the unabridged version was released, so I bought it for her as a gift so that I could finish reading it. It captivated003ghbcq me, such a swirling, intriguing maelstrom of people and events cascading through generations across a tremendous canvas of England during the regency and the Napoleonic wars and eventually arriving in 1850s India in the tragic years of the mutiny. Kaye herself was intimately acquainted with and deeply enamoured of the sub-continent, having started her life there, returning as a young woman to the land that held such vivid, wonderful memories of pre-independence India, to live and love there during the 1940s. And it shows in the detail – Full of brilliantly drawn fictitious and real characters and a plot that engrosses. Periodically I feel a need to revisit this exotic and satisfying tale, and so had to acquire my own copy in case I couldn’t get hold of mum’s in an emergency. Memories of hot summers devouring, reliving, revelling in the story of Winter and Alex and the implosion of the British East India Company. Must dig it out again soon….
Wren Beaumont is a model student. Kind, clever and beautiful, she is loved by everyone at Lancaster Prep. Everyone but brooding campus bad boy Crew Lancaster. Son of the family who own the sc...
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