by Julia Gregson · FIRESIDE BOOKS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781439101124
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«East of the Sun» is the historical and romantic fiction novel by Julia Gregson, published by Fireside Books in paperback (608 pages, in English).
Autumn 1928: three young Englishwomen travel to Bombay as part of the «Fishing Fleet», the women who crossed to India in search of husbands. Rose, a naive bride, fears marrying a stranger; Victoria, her maid of honour, wants to escape her mother; Viva, the chaperone, seeks her childhood. The British Raj will test their secrets and hopes.
Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2009. The work was originally published in 2007; this edition is a 2009 reprint.
A suitable read for book clubs and for those seeking a historical and romantic novel set in colonial India.
Julia Gregson is a British writer of short stories and novels. Her first published short story won Ryman's Literary Review Short story award. In 2009, her novel East of the Sun won the Prince Maurice Prize for Literary Love stories, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
