Why Kathryn loves this book
This is a big book to take on - close to 1000 pages. Because I read on kindle, I don’t actually see the size of the book and I wondered why I was reading it constantly and had only reached 3%. I worked out why! It took me nearly two weeks to finish, and I am a fast reader. Having said all of that, I couldn’t put it down. So well written, so engaging and set in India in the mid 1800s. Fascinating information and background, a great love story, though this is I suppose, secondary overall. Just a great book.
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This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kaye's epic novel of love and war. M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that spans over twenty years, moving from the foothills of the Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul. It begins in 1857 when, following the Indian Mutiny, young English orphan Ashton is disguised by his ayah Sita as her Indian son, Ashok. As he forgets his true identity, his destiny is set...A story of divided loyalties and fierce friendship; of true love made impossible…
