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Touchstone
June 2009
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Featuring: Viva Holloway
608 pages
ISBN: 1439101124
EAN: 9781439101124
Kindle: B002ASFPPK
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Historical | Romance Historical
As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There's Rose, as beautiful as she is naรฏve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover. From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, EAST OF THE SUN is graced with lavish detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical fiction at its greatest.
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