by ValerieFitzgerald (Author)
An international bestseller and winner of the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize.
A magnificent, twisting, turning love story unfolds amid the exotic splendour of the British Raj.
Englishwoman Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly engaged cousin to India, first to Calcutta and then to the fabled fiefdom of Oliver Erskine, Zemindar - or hereditary ruler - of a private kingdom with its own army. But India is on the verge of the Mutiny, which will sweep them all up in its chaos.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 832
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 07 May 2015
ISBN 10: 190880016X
ISBN 13: 9781908800169
ZEMINDAR is drawn from personal experience. Valerie Fitzgerald's grandmother lived through the Indian Mutiny and when her soldier father was posted to Lucknow in WW2, she spent winters in the city and her summers on a zemindari estate.