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| Original Title: | East of the Sun |
| ISBN: | 1409102513 (ISBN13: 9781409102519) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Rose, Victoria Kitchen, Guy, Viva |
| Setting: | India |
| Literary Awards: | Romantic Novel of the Year (RoNa's) Award (2009) |
Julia Gregson
Paperback | Pages: 458 pages Rating: 3.69 | 7109 Users | 817 Reviews
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| Title | : | East of the Sun |
| Author | : | Julia Gregson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 458 pages |
| Published | : | June 2008 by Orion (first published December 2007) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. India. Romance |
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Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In Cabin D38, Viva Hollowat, an inexperienced chaperone, is worried she's made a terrible mistake. Her advert in The Lady has resulted in three unsettling charges to be escorted to India.Rose, a beautiful, dangerously naive English girl, is about to be married to the cavalry officer she has met only a handful of times.
Victoria, the bridesmaid, is determined to lose her virginity on the journey before finding a husband of her own in India. And overshadowing all three of them, the malevolent presence of Guy Glover, a strange and disturbed schoolboy.
Three potential Memsahibs with a myriad of reasons for leaving England, but the cargo of hopes and secrets they carry has done little to prepare them for what lies ahead.
From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of the orphans on Tamarind Street, East of the Sun is everything a historical novel should be: alive with glorious detail, fascinating characters and masterful storytelling.
Rating Regarding Books East of the Sun
Ratings: 3.69 From 7109 Users | 817 ReviewsCritique Regarding Books East of the Sun
In general I am a fan of historical fiction/romance novels. In this book we travel to India in the mid-late 1920's. The story tells the story of three women who transition from adolescence into adulthood. Through the women we see the variety of struggles that most females encounter: betrayal, emergence from a sheltered life, body image, inability to meet societal expectations, grief, and a desire to be self-sufficient. As the author told the story of one of the characters, I found myselfA lovely sense of the times of the Raj in India.This book starts out with great promise, with the crossing from England to India in the Kaiser-i-Hind. As we sailed, we met the four characters who are central to this story.Viva needs to return to India to retrieve an old trunk that belonged to her dead parents. Rose is travelling to marry captain Jack Chandler, a man she hardly knows, and her friend and companion, Tor (Victoria) is to be her bridesmaid. Tor is also hopeful of finding herself a
Quite disappointed with this book.I was expecting amazing things after reading monsoon summerI enjoyed the characters different journeys ...all arriving in the same party and living such different lives so close together was a great idea but I just didnt feel it come to life enough for me to give anymore than 2 stars.
I found this book very hard going, not because it's a difficult or demanding read - far from it - but because most of the story completely failed to engage my interest. I only kept reading in the hope that it would improve - which, thankfully, it did, albeit not until the final quarter. Part of the problem is that the characters aren't particularly likeable - Tor is annoying, Rose insipid, and Guy downright horrible (and then we're expected to care about his potential demise!) There also seems
I am a fan of Julia Gregson. Her novels, with their international focus, are truly fascinating to me. I have learned so much; this is a much better way to learn than sitting in all of the boring geography classes that I attended during my 18 years of education."East of the Sun" focuses on " The Fishing Fleet", and the English women who sailed from England to India in 1928 in search of husbands. These ships were called TFF due to the fact that they were often packed with English women travelling
In 1929, much had changed in the world of the British aristocracy. Old families of wealth, were now not so rich, and their daughters were getting more and more difficult to marry off. If the season passed without so much as a proposal of marriage, there was one option left to a single girl: become one of the fishing fleet. Thousands of British girls of marrying age, set sail for India in the hopes of catching husbands.East of the Sun is a fascinating look at that time in the form of a novel
This may be the first book of the year to earn the title of Epic Read. To me, an Epic Read is a book where I could easily imagine a full series out of the storylines. That doesn't mean that I think the story would have been better in a multiple book format, it simply means that this book was jam packed with storyline and kept me intrigued for days. East of the Sun, by Julia Gregson, had a main storyline and multiple branching storylines that really keep the reader involved. This is part of what
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