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Eden Gardens

By: Louise Brown
Narrated by: Jo Woodcock, Bharti Patel
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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.

©2015 Louise Brown (P)2016 Headline Digital
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Excellent story , very real and well read

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. I particularly liked the alternative narrators which made the book that much more real. Well researched and well written - have nothing negative to say about it.

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