Flies to Wanton Boys - Couverture souple

Lamdin, M S

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 103587072X ISBN 13 : 9781035870721

Editeur : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

Set in the final years of Queen Victoria's reign, at the beginning of the end of Empire in India, Flies to Wanton Boys records the life of Marian Chase as she defies convention to cross continents. Ignoring repeated advice that 'this is no place for a woman', she travels through India in search of experiences and relationships more extraordinary than she could ever have expected from her comfortable middle-class upbringing in London and on the South coast.

Intoxicated by India; its colours, its sights, its people, she survives landslides and bandit tribesmen in the mountains of the Northwest Frontier, running aground on the mighty Brahmaputra River and devastating monsoon floods in the tea plantations of Upper Assam.

And on her journey, she marries, gives birth to a daughter, is widowed, and then marries again to a man whose power and ego finally leave her abandoned and homeless.

Her eventual return to England, to the family she left behind fifteen years earlier, is not enough to relieve the grief she feels at having squandered the life she once had.

Marian was a remarkable woman who kept meticulous diaries, revealing with unique honesty not just the places and peoples she embraced but her emotions, her doubts, and her fears until eventually she had no energy left.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A compulsive writer for many years and inspired by several visits to the Indian Sub-Continent, Miles Lamdin lives quietly with his wife and daughter in the heart of Suffolk. Historical fiction provides him with opportunity to explore the life and times of people and places easily forgotten, people who lived beyond the conventional wisdom of the day and places now so altered as to be unrecognisable.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 103587072X
• ISBN 13: 9781035870721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 450
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• Personne responsable: non disponible