After a long time I tried an old Classic. One thing that left me pleasantly surprised was unlike other old classics I have read, the language of this book was easy to comprehend. The overall plot of the book fascinates me as the book recounts experience of an English girl who came to India in 1857 and as the year suggest, gets embroiled in the mutiny or as the Indian historians likes to call it, the first independence struggle of India. At the heart of the book is a bittersweet love story between the girl and an white Indian Zemindaar.
The book chronicles the twists and turns their lives took due to the chaos that follows
The love angle is not like mills and boon but is more about conquering our pre-conceived notions and self deception.
In fact at many places in the book it feels like I'm reading pride and prejudice. There are many similarities between this book and work by Jane Austen.
Also as an Indian I also found Author's narrative pretty well balanced. Without taking sides, She describe the instances of 1857 mutiny through the eyes of British families in India.
The book chronicles the twists and turns their lives took due to the chaos that follows
The love angle is not like mills and boon but is more about conquering our pre-conceived notions and self deception.
In fact at many places in the book it feels like I'm reading pride and prejudice. There are many similarities between this book and work by Jane Austen.
Also as an Indian I also found Author's narrative pretty well balanced. Without taking sides, She describe the instances of 1857 mutiny through the eyes of British families in India.
At 400 pages, it's a long book but the story and flow holds together
In fact I felt the characters has enough potential for a sequel also
