| Title | : | A Lion in the Way |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Elizabeth Cadell |
| Release | : | 1982-01-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Contemporary Romance, Books, Romance |
| Size | : | 2335358 |
| In 1913, the British in India were enjoying a privileged lifestyle. There were bearers to wait on them, ayahs to look after their children, Clubs, cricket, tennis, riding, boating, and a continual round of parties. It was a way of life that seemed destined to continue indefinitely. Annerly Brooke had lived all her thirteen years in Calcutta. She loved India, and her senses were always alive to its brilliance, richness and colour—the sound of the snake-charmer’s flute, the wooden rattle of the monkey-man, the bazaar with its stalls overflowing with brightly colored cloth, pots and pans, and exotic vegetables, fruit and sweets. Her father, Edwin Brooke, had brought out his young wife to India. She died shortly after giving birth to Annerly, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Devenish, came to look after the baby and had never returned to England. Edwin now made a modest income coaching Indian students who wished to enter English universities. Though the Brookes lived at the unfashionable end of Seymour Street and were never part of the social scene, it was a happy existence for the three of them. Then, just before the outbreak of the First World War, Annerly was sent to school in England. On her return to India in 1919, she found that the rise of Gandhism and the struggle for independence had brought many changes to the country she loved. A Lion in the Way is the story of Annerley’s friendship with two contemporaries whose characters and personalities differed widely from her own: the temperamental and quick-tempered Shareen Prebdel, daughter of wealthy Indian parents—and Moira Fenwick, a difficult and self-willed girl whose parents had never concerned themselves with her well-being. It is also the story of Annerley’s development from childhood to womanhood, and her marriage. Above all it is the story of India, of the people’s fight for independence and the dawning of the end of British rule. |
