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Monsoon Summer
On sale
24th August 2017
Price: £9.99
A compelling story of love, adventure, and the secrets that follow us, wherever we go…
I adored this wonderful story…Astonishingly good’ Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter’s Wife and Before the Rains
Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war and nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood throws herself into helping her godmother Daisy set up a charity sending midwives to India, a plan fraught with danger.
Then Kit meets Anto, a trainee doctor from India nearing the end of his English education, and falls utterly in love. Marriage should be the easiest thing in the world, but when Anto informs his family that he is shortly to return home with an English bride, his parents are appalled.
Despite being Anglo-Indian herself, Kit’s own mother is equally horrified. She has spent most of her life trying to erase a painful past and losing her daughter to an Indian man is her worst fear realized.
As they journey to a new life in India, Kit begins to understand the seriousness of what she has undertaken and just how much she has to learn about the nature of home and the depth of her love.
I adored this wonderful story…Astonishingly good’ Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter’s Wife and Before the Rains
Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war and nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood throws herself into helping her godmother Daisy set up a charity sending midwives to India, a plan fraught with danger.
Then Kit meets Anto, a trainee doctor from India nearing the end of his English education, and falls utterly in love. Marriage should be the easiest thing in the world, but when Anto informs his family that he is shortly to return home with an English bride, his parents are appalled.
Despite being Anglo-Indian herself, Kit’s own mother is equally horrified. She has spent most of her life trying to erase a painful past and losing her daughter to an Indian man is her worst fear realized.
As they journey to a new life in India, Kit begins to understand the seriousness of what she has undertaken and just how much she has to learn about the nature of home and the depth of her love.
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Reviews
This engaging novel perfectly captures the last days of the Raj
Gregson draws on accounts of the experience of English midwives in India to weave a compelling tale of the complex ties of family, class and culture.
I adored this wonderful story. I loved the characters who leapt from the page and lived in my mind: I wept at the heart break, and my heart lifted at the hope and the joy. The depth of detail covering the life of an Indian family and the conflict between the two cultures was totally convincing. The big dramatic moments were terrific, but where it truly shone for me was in the small but telling moments when I felt as if I could see into the hearts and minds of the characters. I believed every word and from the moment I began reading I truly felt as if I was there. Astonishingly good
A sweeping romance between a young Indian doctor and a British midwife.
What a gorgeous read. Exciting, romantic, unpredictable and funny. I didn't want it to end. You'll crave curry for weeks.
Heartbreaking poignant lovestory set in post-war India
Exotic, decadent, dangerous and terrific storytelling
Lively, atmospheric novel ... the writing is skillful, vivid and explicit
A wonderful evocation of the rugged Welsh coastline and Catherine's home life
A tenderly told and wonderfully evocative story