![]() The shrewd, unfussy, ironic narrator: Laura Hewitt, 24, who sails to India in 1856 as paid companion to her honeymooning cousin Emily, bride of Charles (whom Laura secretly adores). ![]() ![]() And the result, though at least 200 pages too long and sometimes infuriatingly slow, is an uncommonly warm and un-foolish historical, far less contrived or sentimental than the norm. But, while Kaye's primary model seems to have been the Kiplingesque exotic/military/romantic adventure, Fitzgerald is more ambitious: her heroine is aggressively Jane Austen-ish the local colors are more gritty than glittery the love-through-ordeal plotting is less Barbara Cartland than Margaret Mitchell. Kaye's The Far Pavilions in its sweep and its setting-India circa 1857 (yes, folks, it's Sepoy Mutiny time again). ![]() Winner of Britain's Georgette Heyer Award, this 800-page first novel resembles M. ![]()
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