Winds of Honour
by Ashleigh Bingham
All the Honourable Phoebe Pemberton wants is to get away from her money-grubbing family
and marry the man she loves. But his family don't want her either, and being Lady Grantham
doesn't bring her the happiness she craves. Perhaps the answer lies in India, home of
her mysterious relation and custodian of the fortune that her mother is trying to destroy.
But India in the 1850s is a volatile place, and Phoebe is going to be tested to the limits.
Victoria Holt for modern readers? If, like this reviewer you feared that they didn't
write them like this anymore then read on, for within these covers spellbinding romantic
suspense lives on. This sounds as though Ashleigh Bingham is swimming against the tide,
but surely anybody who can deliver a jolly good story is never truly doing this. This is
going to appeal to anybody who finds most historical romance to be more romance than
historical, and who wants to find out what it was like to have lived in mid 19th century
India instead of just the anatomy of a relationship. This is no battle of the sexes tale,
but the story of a heroine (and hero) who has many adventures to undergo, both separately
and together before the last page. There isn't any passionate sex in here, but something
far less often found in modern fiction; thrilling imagery of a far-off place and time.
The type of thing I want when I fancy a romantic novel - more, please. |
The Book |
Robert Hale |
June 2005 |
Hardback |
0709078579 |
Historical Romance [1854 Yorkshire, UK & India] |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2005 |
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