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 at home in the city s foEden 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 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 and the empire begins to crumbleThis is the other side of British India A dizzying, scandalous, dangerous world, where race, class and gender divide and rule.

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Title: Eden Gardens

Author: Louise Brown

ISBN: 9781472226099

Page: 199

Format: Paperback

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