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East of the Sun by: Julia Gregson List Price: £14.67 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.54 You Save: £5.13 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9781409104544 Format: Audiobook, CD ISBN: 1409104540 Label: Orion Manufacturer: Orion Number Of Items: 5 Publication Date: July 17, 2008 Publisher: Orion Studio: Orion Sales Rank: 14191 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A gripping readI thought that this book was a gripping read and difficult to put down, even my husband enjoyed it and he does not normally read the same books as I do. It evoked the between-the-wars era when it was considered normal for expats to spend years away from home and family in the colonies, rarely going home because of the slow methods of transportation, and cutting themselves off from friends and family and all that was familiar. The thought of sending an 18-year old daughter across the world alone to marry a man she hardly knew would be unheard of now! The only weak links were the characterisation of Jack (why on earth did he become hastily engaged to a girl he hardly knew while home on leave when he was still fairly young and had a sumptuous Indian ... Read More: Rating:  - Awful! Don't bother!This was a novel that I so wanted to give a chance. Sadly, it was long winded and boring. The characters get irritating and after a while I actually stopped caring about them. The history is compelling and the descriptions are satisfactory. I actually stopped reading this novel 3/4 of the way through. Rating:  - A wonderful ReadI loved this book. The sort of book that makes you smile, evoking time, place and character with deceptive ease. While never being preachy, and always being first and foremost an enjoyable story, the book has a serious underlying theme: the fragile status of single women at that time, resonating in the larger fragility of an India about to free itself of colonialism. Lovely. 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! |
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