Author: Louise Brown

Review: Eden Gardens by Louise Brown

Posted May 25, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Eden Gardens by Louise Brown

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Eden Gardens by Louise Brown Published by Headline Review on April 21, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Historical Pages: 368 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night – a disgrace to British India. All hopes are on beautiful Maisy to restore their good fortune. But Maisy’s more at home in the city’s forbidden alleyways, eating bazaar food and speaking Bengali with Pushpa, than dancing in glittering ballrooms with potential husbands. Then one day Maisy’s tutor falls ill. His son stands in. Poetic, handsome and ambitious for an independent India, Sunil Banerjee promises Maisy the world. So begins a love affair that will cast her future, for better and for worse. Just as the Second World War strikes […]