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Blurb:As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay
in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their
fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing
Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen
who sail to India each year in search of husbands,
heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced
chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch
over three unsettling charges. There's Rose, as beautiful
as she is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry
officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid,
Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en
route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing
them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed
schoolboy named Guy Glover.
From
the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the
poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets
of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay
Yacht Club, East of the Sun is graced with lavish
detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical
fiction at its greatest.
