Library Loot

This week's loot!

Daughters of India, by Jill McGivering:   "Isabel, born into the British Raj, and Asha, a young Hindu girl, both consider India their home. Through mischance and accident their stories intersect and circumstances will bring them from the bustling city of Delhi to the shores of the Andaman Islands, from glittering colonial parties to the squalor and desperation of a notorious prison; and into the lives of men on opposing sides of the fight for self-government"

I'm always on the lookout for historical fiction set in places I've never been.  

At Least We Lived: the Unlikely Adventures of an English Couple in WWII China, by  Emma Oxford.  Pretty much what the subtitle says.  A young Englishwoman goes to China in 1943, meets and marries an Englishman who had escaped from Japanese-controlled Hong Kong. Written by their daughter.   






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