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"Someone's personality is formed by genes and circumstances" is what my teacher father always says. This is essentially what this story is about. Someone explains at the end that loving someone is something you have to learn as a child. And that because that person was not loved - and we know had very bad biological parents - he is so self absorbed.

19-century India, a few years after the rebellion. Pree (15) lives as the daughter of two very damaged and poor British missionaries in a rural mission. Her life evolves around her ill mother and taking care of the sick Indians who come to the mission for medical treatment. Kai, who is a couple of years older, and his mother Glory, a leper and a cook who are all Indian live there too.

In the next two years all the certainties in her life crumble away. Somehow that made me think of Dickens books or the one by Pallister. It makes one realise that in those days you had no social network to rely upon when things turned sour, no authorities to ask for help. That one day you could lead a very respectable life and the next month could be in the clutches of a whore madam.

When all seems lost Pree embarks on a journey to find the person she loved all her life in hope of his help and protection. But because of that journey she finds a totally unexpected happiness.

The book is well written and a real page turner and at some moments very moving. There was only one aspect I wondered about. A certain gentleman has a senior position in the government but is half Afghan - half British and was married to a Muslim Afghan woman. In the highly segregated society of British India - as it is shown in the book but also in others - I wonder if that was possible. The man also explains his British mother returned to England but his father somehow still lives in Afghanistan and it is clear he uses an English surname. So was he illegitimate? And was it then possible to have such a respected position? But I noticed it is the same surname as the writer uses in another of her books so maybe this gentleman is supposed to be related to that book and the answers to my questions are answered there.


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I love this author!
The beginning was a bit choppy and I had to muddle through it but once the
characters began to take shape and the story emerged it was very good.
The background and history were very well narrated and described and the
plot kept one riveted.
I have just finished this book and found I could not put it down. The story of Pree Fincastle is completely engrossing, and full of gritty detail, unexpected plot twists, and complex, flawed chararacters. The setting is exotic, and the writing really allows you to enter not only the world of colonial India but the reality of life in a poor mission in the rural countryside. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes intelligent historical fiction and strong (yet historically and culturally appropriate) heroines. I too would have liked to know who she married; I don't think it was Kai after all.
The characters are all a treat to know. The story-line is unique, but easily believed. Most of the action takes place in a contemporary India and the scenes are so well defined, you can picture it effortlessly. It's rare to find a book that's three-in-one a character study, a photo-like journal of an exotic place, and a mystery. I loved this book and all the characters-- even the ones hard to like!
I love the story lines of Linda Holeman. Her characters come alive from the pages and the book becomes hard to put down. Her books do not always have the "happily ever after" ending that most people expect. I like that, too. That way the end and all the the twists and turns in between are unpredictable. I can't guess the end until I get there. This book was great to read and hard to forget.
The first half dragged on, the second half almost too quickly. Nothing exciting happens until 43% into the book. On a whole, however, the author's descriptions of life in India at the time was very well done. The reader can easily picture the rural mission and the lives of those in it. Once Pree moved to the city, the descriptions fell way short of being satisfying. The book is an interesting look at the multiple ethnicities and religions living together. There wasn't much emphasis on the political turbulence during British rule, for which I was thankful. Overall, this is a very good historical fiction.
A tale of a young girl who grows up in a Christian missionary during some of the most bloody years of the British Raj in India. She refuses to be the daughter her parents wish her to become.
But things are not as they would seem to be to the people who pass by the mission compound. Why is she unable to accept the Christian religion she grows up learning every day? Even she can see her parents are outcasts, but doesn't understand the signs that warn her that a storm is blowing her way. Can she survive the storm when it arrives? She only loves one person, but that person is incapable of helping her. Darkness encompasses her life and struggles to survive. She soon learns to depend on herself and that she is far more capable than she thinks. Will she be able to start a new life?
"Someone's personality is formed by genes and circumstances" is what my teacher father always says. This is essentially what this story is about. Someone explains at the end that loving someone is something you have to learn as a child. And that because that person was not loved - and we know had very bad biological parents - he is so self absorbed.

19-century India, a few years after the rebellion. Pree (15) lives as the daughter of two very damaged and poor British missionaries in a rural mission. Her life evolves around her ill mother and taking care of the sick Indians who come to the mission for medical treatment. Kai, who is a couple of years older, and his mother Glory, a leper and a cook who are all Indian live there too.

In the next two years all the certainties in her life crumble away. Somehow that made me think of Dickens books or the one by Pallister. It makes one realise that in those days you had no social network to rely upon when things turned sour, no authorities to ask for help. That one day you could lead a very respectable life and the next month could be in the clutches of a whore madam.

When all seems lost Pree embarks on a journey to find the person she loved all her life in hope of his help and protection. But because of that journey she finds a totally unexpected happiness.

The book is well written and a real page turner and at some moments very moving. There was only one aspect I wondered about. A certain gentleman has a senior position in the government but is half Afghan - half British and was married to a Muslim Afghan woman. In the highly segregated society of British India - as it is shown in the book but also in others - I wonder if that was possible. The man also explains his British mother returned to England but his father somehow still lives in Afghanistan and it is clear he uses an English surname. So was he illegitimate? And was it then possible to have such a respected position? But I noticed it is the same surname as the writer uses in another of her books so maybe this gentleman is supposed to be related to that book and the answers to my questions are answered there.