My actual rating: 3.5 Set in Bombay during the years 1928-1930, this story of three young women who travel to India for different reasons and form a bond of friendship is a very enjoyable read. The backdrop to the story is the unrest brewing at the time and the emergence of Gandhi. This story br...
I hesitated when I saw this book at Costco. In-fact, I picked it up once and quickly set it down when I saw that it was the winner of the “Romantic Novel of the Year Award.” I like a good romance, of course, but it’s nice when such guilty pleasures aren’t advertised right on the cover. In the aca...
Μπορεί να κινούμαστε στα ίδια μοτίβα με το επόμενο βιβλίο της συγγραφέως, το Γιασεμί της ανατολής (ένας άντρας αγαπάει μία γυναίκα και οι περιστάσεις τους χωρίζουν αλλά ο έρωτάς τους θεριεύει με την απόσταση και όταν επιτέλους οι συνθήκες τους φγέρνουν κοντά ζουν την απόλυτη ευτυχία), όμως αυτό τ...
So he wasn’t all that surprised when the boy had run up to him with her letter. He’d been sitting on a wooden fence, watching his horses, and ripped the letter open with his heart pounding. She said she wanted to meet him that week with some important news. He felt a spurt of triumph, a feeling o...
Of course, he could be silly and affected, and maybe he did occasionally make things up, but what sixteen-year-old didn’t? She herself had spent most of her sixteenth year in Middle Wallop imagining that Nigel Thorn Davies, her father’s red-faced land agent, was secretly a...
They were performing at a fuel depot close to an infantry camp near Burg el Arab; Arleta was pretending to be Josephine Baker dancing the famous banana dance that had enchanted tout Paris; Willie was the ravenous little boy eating her bananas while she leapt around blissfully unaware. It was very...
When we reached the first village, Karappuram, he threaded his way through it, hand on horn, swerving to avoid a fruit stall or a chicken or a man being shaved. He sighed a lot and occasionally glared at me through the rearview mirror. But I didn’t care, because as we headed out into the immense ...