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Love the cover of this one!

This is the story of three women who travel from England to India during the turbulent 1920s when India's and England's relations were in flux. Each woman has secrets she wishes to keep deeply buried. It kept my interest enough that I read to the end, but as a fan of books set in India I was hoping for more depth to the story. 3 stars

One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.

I so enjoyed the first half of this book but then it sort of stuttered and stalled and meandered to an end. Some fairly big chunks of plot piddled away to nothing. I skimmed the last hundred pages and didn't miss a thing. On to my next car line read!

I am enjoying the heck out of this book! I wish I had saved it for the beach. I love books set in India and the gossipy way it just keeps unfolding makes it hard to put down.

"That was the night when her mother, who could be mean in several languages, introduced her to the German word Kummerspeck for the kind of fat that settles on people who use food to buck themselves up. 'It means sad fat,' she'd said, 'and it describes you now.'" OUCH ?

Car line reading

A hot cup of English breakfast tea and a book set in India brings the warmth that chases away the dreary, rainy, chilly damp of a January morning in New England.