And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. There%u2019s 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 %u201CFishing Fleet%u201D%u2014the 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. As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. 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.
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