Love's Garden

ISBN: 195154708X

Author: Bhattacharya, Nandini

Condition: New

One of BUZZFEED News' "15 Books From Smaller Presses You Won't Be Able to Put Down!" "A fascinating and well-crafted journey into India's complex past with characters that will entice you...." Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Last Queen, The Forest of Enchantment) "Wonderfully dense and wise, with a narrative sweep recalling the work of Dickens...." Laura Brown (Quickening, featured in Barnes and Noble's Discover New Writers Series) "A sprawling family saga set against some of the most momentous events of 20th century Indian history." Clifford Garstang (What the Zhang Boys Know, winner of 2013 Library of Virginia Award) RATED 4.5 ***** BY AMAZON READERS There is NOTHING Lady Prem Mitter, unhappy wife ofIndian baronet Sir Mitter in Calcutta in the 1920s, won'tdo to protect the abandoned daughter of her deadchildhood friend. When she's asked to step in to protectthe child of an Englishwoman with a mysteriousconnection to her husband, though, can she cope?Diverse stories of family and women's lives in modernIndia ruled by the British unearth an older secret inLady Mitter's past, a secret that holds the key to herlife and loves during the most turbulent times inBritish-ruled India.