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East of the Sun by: Julia Gregson List Price: £7.99 Price: £2.99 You Save: £5.00 (63%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781409102519 ISBN: 1409102513 Label: Orion Manufacturer: Orion Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: June 12, 2008 Publisher: Orion Studio: Orion Sales Rank: 2823 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Wonderfully enjoyable readSet in a wonderfully well imagined 1920s, this is the story of three young women who travel (first class, by sea) to India. Eighteen-year-old Rose is going to be married, to a young man she hardly knows. Her friend, bubbly, insecure Victoria (Tor) is to be her bridesmaid -- delighted to escape from her domineering, critical mother, she also hopes to find herself a husband. The third, Viva, is a few years older but has managed to get her fare paid by the girls' mothers in return for acting as their chaperone. Brought up in India until the age of eight, Viva has lived in England ever since and has mixed feelings about returning to the country where both her parents and her older sister died. Also in Viva's care on the ship is Guy Glover, an unstable ... Read More: Rating:  - Extremely disappointingAs this was a Richard and Judy recommended read, I thought this would be a cracking read. How wrong I was! Very slow; boring two dimensional characters, Im afraid it went to the charity shop before I reached the end. I read two-thirds of it, by which time I was ready to scream with annoyance! Rating: - AWFUL! patronising and badly writtenLike many other reviewers I was looking forward to reading this book and was severely disappointed. The prose is badly written, full of non-sequiturs and in some cases, simple bad grammar ("she might of..." being one such example which stuck in my mind). The treatment of the Indian characters and the protagonists' interaction with them is patronising to say the least. The novel may be set in colonial India but there is no effort made to question the (stereo)typical colonial attitudes and behaviour. Even Viva, the supposed liberal thinker and bohemian, views the Indian children as 'poor but happy'. The characters' motivations are often unclear and the resolutions in the story vary wildly from over-simplified fairy tale (Tor) to no closure whatsoever ... Read More: Rating:  - Poorly written chick litI took this book on holiday, and I did finish it, but it was disappointingly badly written and the story was no more than historical chick lit really. I'm interested in this phase of colonial history, but this book told me nothing of interest about that time. An easy read if you're not a demanding reader I suppose. Rating: - Excellent historical novelI bought this book for a work trip which meant I would spend a few days away from my family. What a joy it was to be transported into the last days of Colonial India. A really splendid well written book which I kept going back to until I had devoured every last word. The most un-put-downable book I have read for some time. Thought provoking and fabulous storytelling. |
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