East of the Sun

De: Julia Gregson

Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues

Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.

Each of them has their own reason for leaving their homeland but the hopes and secrets they carry can do little to prepare them for what lies ahead in India...

©2008 Julia Gregson (P)2008 WF Howes Ltd

Reseñas de la Crítica

A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.

Lovely Book

This is a great historical, romance epic novel. The narrator is excellent and the story is captivating. Loved learning some history of India while following the lives of the three women characters. This book is a delight to listen to and I look forward to another book by Julia Gregson soon. Well worth the time and credit!

Engaging

I LOVED how the author tied a larger world-view up in the stories of three quite different ladies. I liked how the story slowly unfolded...I find this resembles how life works...generally no huge cathartic epiphanies, but smaller, slower revelations that lend themselves to a larger awareness or understanding. I had a difficult time turning this one off at the end of each commute.

Good Read

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The book takes the lives of three women and follows them through their lives while they travel to and live in India. It was well written and touches on a part of history that I wasn't that familiar with. Definitely worth the read.

Great Narrator

I think I could listen to just about anything narrated by Tania Rodrigues. Her reading is wonderfully subtle and nuanced, and she makes this unambitious novel about British women who travel to India at the end of the Raj era more engaging and enjoyable.

India adventure

You become instantly involved with three unique young British girls we become functioning iv and mothers in on poverty and beauty of India
And you are pulled along through the ups w downs of their shaky marriages
Thtpytt

Much better than I had anticipated!

I got this book because the plot looked interesting enough and it had all positive reviews. Am I ever glad that I purchased this book! The narrator was amazing and the story was captivating. Don't be fooled as this is not a romance. More of a coming of age novel for all three women who are the main characters. I could almost feel myself in colonial India, and understand why the British were not wanted there any longer. One of my top rated audiobooks ever listened to!

Great listen

Interesting characters, well read and engaging with a wonderful ending.

Poor woman’s Passage To India

I felt this author borrowed the circumstances of the book
from E.M. Forster but without the historical perspective nor the gravitas of the time. It is almost as if Ms, Greyson set out to write the romance version of that classic novel. The narrator, Ms. Rodrigues, on the other hand, is masterful and, at time her talent eclipses the book’s flaws. I will look for her voice again.

Slow start but worth the wait...

I'm not particularly a fan of this genre (drama??), but once in a while, i let myself get out of my reading comfort-zone, so i took a gamble with this book.
The blurb hooked me into buying the book (I must confess I didn't actually read the reviews, just saw the ratings) and at first, i was really dubious about being able to finish the whole book!
the best comparison i have for this book is: it's like slow-braised lamb - takes hours and hours to really get cooking, but well worth the wait. If you're a fan of flash-in-the-pan stirfry sizzle, it might not be your cup of tea, but as i said at the start, well-worth the wait...

East Of The Sun

this is a very good book characters are well developedStory flowed well.