Gretta Curran Browne
ASIN: B008LF5KXS
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 246
From the award-winning Bestselling Author of "Tread Softly On My Dreams."***"Showing tremendous skill as an author and historian, Browne crafts an epic and multilayered love story set against the backdrop of British India.The novel's exploration of its moment in history is graceful and uncommon, while the story's drama is engrossing. Her female characters are drawn with a particularly organic and seamless touch." --- THE BOOKLIFE PRIZE ***THE TRUE STORY OF A YOUNG BRITISH OFFICER, IN LOVE, IN INDIA, WHO WENT ON TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEN OF HIS TIME.Set in the beauty of Scotland, the magic of India, and the hostility of China, peopled with memorable characters of all races, By Eastern Windows is the story of a Lieutenant Lachlan Macquarie, posted to India where he meets Jane Jarvis, a young girl from the Caribbean – beautiful, different and exciting – who becomes the ...