It’s New Year’s Eve 1913 and Maddy Bright wants to be back in England. She can’t get used to the sweltering heat in India and thinks only about what she’s missing back home. Then she meets Luke Devereaux. He shows her Bombay and she begins to love the beautiful, unique countryside. They fall in love and are desperate to marry.
It’s a suitable match, but Maddy’s mother, Alice, prefers Guy Bowen. However, Maddy has her way and on the eve of Luke having to leave to fight in WWI they are married and promise each other to meet again in Bombay when the fighting is over.
However, the war years are more difficult then they could foresee. They both experience the horrors of war although continents apart. When the war is finally over, Luke has injuries that prevent him from returning to Bombay. Maddy wants to wait for him, but life must move on and their love story takes an unusual twist.
This is a beautifully written love story. At the beginning you think it will be predictable, but the story twists and unexpected events change the course Luke and Maddy had planned for their lives. I found the book romantic, sad, and in the end very satisfying.
Ashcroft writes wonderful description. You can smell the bazaars and see the vivid sites of colonial Bombay. If you enjoy a love story that is not predictable, you’ll like this book.
I received this book from St. Martin’s Press for this review.
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