Product Details
Touchstone, June 2009
Trade Paperback, 608 pages
ISBN-10: 1439101124
ISBN-13: 9781439101124
Description
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.
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"I always wish for books like this, but they are rare -- a beautifully written, compelling saga that is impossible to put down. It's about ambition, love, survival, and the friendship of three women who leave England for the exotic and sometimes frightening adventure of India. Reading this is an escape to another place and time where friends and romance are waiting."
-- Delia Ephron
"I felt like I'd packed a steamer trunk and was part of the group going out to India. What a gorgeous read. Exciting, romantic, unpredictable, and funny. I didn't want it to end."
-- Tracey Ullman
"Beautifully written."
-- Country Life (UK)
"A finely written story full of characters you care about...highly descriptive and persuasively told."
-- The Lady (UK)
"an absorbing international period drama...Gregson's rich imagery, strong characters and gripping plot make this a resonant page-turner."
-- Publishers Weekly
"With lavishly detailed settings and every character, however marginal, fleshed out to perfection, Gregson's historical novel is a sweeping, emotional read"
-- Booklist
Cinderford Today, July 16, 2009
...adjacent parking. Lunchtime sees a literary lunch at Lower Lydbrooks The Garden Café with best- selling Whitebrook novelist Julia Gregson talking about her latest book East of the Sun and her debut novel The Waterhorse. Also participating ...
Richmond Times Dispatch, July 5, 2009
...EAST OF THE SUN Julia Gregson 608 pages, Touchstone, $16 Text size: small | medium | large JAY STRAFFORD TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER FICTION Sometimes, a sprawling historical novel is a perfect ...
Book Reporter, June 26, 2009
...EAST OF THE SUN is a historical novel set in the era of Gandhi, during a time of growing civil unrest toward British imperialism in India. Peaceful demonstration by Gandhi against ...
Chepstow Today, June 24, 2009
...adjacent parking. Lunchtime sees a literary lunch at Lower Lydbrooks The Garden Café with best- selling Whitebrook novelist Julia Gregson talking about her latest book East of the Sun and her debut novel The Waterhorse. Also participating ...
Sunday Tribune Ireland, February 22, 2009
...and ghosts from the past. This lovely heroine meets a gorgeous hero, with tragically increasing sight loss (in Julia Gregson's East of the Sun, which last week won the Romantic Novelists' Association prize). Adam Kellas is on a journey from ...
The Independent, February 12, 2009
...and ghosts from the past. This lovely heroine meets a gorgeous hero, with tragically increasing sight loss (in Julia Gregson's East of the Sun, which this week won the Romantic Novelists' Association prize). Adam Kellas is on a journey from ...
Guardian Unlimited, February 10, 2009
...'Lots of different kinds of love' ... Julia Gregson A story about three young women travelling to India in the last days of the British Raj has beaten bestselling chick lit author Cecelia Ahern's latest book to ...
M2, January 14, 2009
...fifth book by Cecelia Ahern; Before the Storm by Judith Lennox, who is shortlisted for the third time; East of the Sun by Julia Gregson; and a novel set in 19th century Japan, The Last Concubine, by Lesley Downer. Alice O'Keeffe, books ...
The Bookseller, January 13, 2009
...Home, and Peter Crawshaw, who runs Lovereading.co.uk, to choose the winning novel. Lesley Downer, Linda Gillard, Julia Gregson, and Judith Lennox were also shortlisted for the award. Downer, nominated for The Last Concubine (Transworld) ...
Guardian Unlimited, January 13, 2009
...in the running are two novels set in more exotic climes. A former Richard and Judy summer read, East of the Sun by Julia Gregson, takes place in 1928 and follows three women as they travel by sea to India for a wedding. The Last Concubine by ...
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