![]() ![]() Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. There’s Rose, as beautiful as she is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. ![]() They are part of the “Fishing Fleet”-the name given to the legions of English women who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s.Īs the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. ![]()
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