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Waiting For The Monsoon (2012)

by Threes Anna(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0887842577 (ISBN13: 9780887842573)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

House of Anansi Press

review 1: Overall I enjoyed this book. The plot was detailed and I enjoyed the way that Anna brought together all of the characters as the novel progressed. I felt real empathy for the central character. The reason I have given this three rather than four stars is because of the way the narrative is structured. Anna cuts scenes frequently and, although this works on many occasions, I found that it made the novel too disjointed for my taste and felt that it disrupted the narrative flow. A shame, as apart from this I really enjoyed the book - there was just too much chopping and changing for me to be able to lose myself in it.
review 2: I received a copy of this book in a free giveaway from Goodreads. It is a highly unusual love story to say the least with many twists in t... morehe plot. We are introduced to the heroine, Charlotte Bridgwater, an older widow, who is struggling to maintain her rundown family estate, with the help of one Indian servant, in Rampur, India. She cuts the grass before dawn in the morning to hid her family's impoverished condition from her wealthy Indian social club friends.She also cares for her elderly invalid father, a former decorated British army General from WW2. Through flashbacks of tragedies of different generations in her own family as well as those of Madan, a tailor she has let a room to in order to have income to pay the piles of bills she is hiding from her father, we see how actions in the past affected those in the present and we see a magical love story develop. The scenes with her Indian friends in the social club add humour and are reminiscent of Alexander McCall Smith's characters in his No.1 Ladies' Detective Series. This is a thoroughly enjoyable book, which I highly recommend to everyone. less

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