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Liz Harris has successfully transported me to 1930s India in her five-star novel set on a tea plantation in Darjeeling! I've read books set in colonial India before, but Harris has a superb gift in making life during the British Raj come to life. Harris's strong sense of place, evident in her skyscapes, distinctive dialogue, syntax, as well as specifics of the 5 senses, helps readers effortlessly make the imaginative leap back into the fascinating world of the past. (NetGalley review) Wonderfully evocative about women and their situations at the end of the British Raj. One finds that she is the owner of a tea plantation following an inheritance. The other marries into the life of living and working on one. Two women on very different paths at a very difficult time in history. A difficult time for women everywhere, but for white, unmarried women in India at the time of the British Raj, particularly so. Immersive and detailed and a novel I really enjoyed. (NetGalley Review) It is essentially a love story, but with secrets and betrayals, set in the Darjeeling area of India. The time period of the 1930's, is vividly recreated by the author, along with rich descriptions of the tea estates for which the area is famous. I highly recommend this book, if you like Ann Bennet, Dinah Jeffries, M M Kaye, and The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas, you will enjoy this too. I look forward to the next instalment of The Colonials in 2022. (Amazon review) Lovers of Dinah Jefferies will eat this book up Atmospheric descriptions of India combined with a brooding romance and a treacherous best friend First book in a trilogy and so delighted to find that out and just didn't want it to end. (NetGalley review)

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Born in London, Liz Harris graduated from university with a Law degree, and then moved to California, where she led a varied life, from waitressing on Sunset Strip to working as secretary to the CEO of a large Japanese trading company.Six years later, she returned to London and completed a degree in English, after which she taught secondary school pupils, first in Berkshire, and then in Cheshire.In addition to the thirteen novels she's had published, she's had several short stories in anthologies and magazines. Liz now lives in Oxfordshire. An active member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Historical Novel Society, her interests are travel, the theatre, reading and cryptic crosswords. To find out more about Liz, visit her website at: www.lizharrisauthor.com

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