Author:Val Wood,Anne Dover
Harriet and Fletcher Tuke have worked hard to raise their children well. Daniel, the eldest son, has always accepted that his birth father died soon after he was born, and Fletcher has raised Daniel as his own.
But as Daniel comes of age and begins to fall in love with childhood friend Beatrice Hart, he can’t help but wonder about his heritage – his olive skin and dark eyes reminding him daily of the difference between him and his siblings, and between his and Beatrice’s families. Meanwhile, shocking truths about Fletcher’s own family line are suddenly brought to the surface, revealing a connection between the two families.
Daniel’s wish to learn about his bloodline takes him to Europe, where decisions about his future take shape. But will it be one he can share with Beatrice? And as Harriet hopefully awaits his return back home on the farm, she could never imagine that answers to questions about her own family are also just on the horizon.
If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.
Full of characters the reader will care about . . . a heartwarming story filled with compelling action
—— Rosie Goodwin, bestselling author of Home Front Girlsgreat story-telling
—— Choice MagazineWritten in a heart-warming and easy-going style, it is a perfect book to curl up with on a winter’s afternoon.
—— Nursing StandardWritten in a heart-warming and easy-going style, it is a perfect book to curl up with on a winter’s afternoon’ 5* review
—— Nursing StandardNeel Mukherjee has written an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce.
—— Rose TremainFull of acute, often uncomfortable and angry, observations, The Lives of Others is a picture of a family in all its disunity, and beyond it a city and country, on the brink of disaster.
—— The TimesA Seth-ian narrative feast with dishes to spare ... a graphic reminder that the bourgeois Indian culture western readers so readily idealize is sustained at terrible human cost
—— Patrick Gale , IndependentExpansive and often brilliant… Mukherjee spares the reader nothing…yet his command of storytelling is so astounding, he draws the reader into places they would prefer not to look
—— Claire Allfree , MetroThe writing is unfailingly beautiful … Resembles a tone poem in its dazzling orchestration of the crescendo of domestic racket. His eye is as acute as his ear: the physicality of people and objects is delineated with a hyper-aesthetic vividness ….
—— Jane Shilling , New StatesmanNeel Mukherjee has given us a picture of India that cuts through history, social classes and regions but centers on a nouveau pauvre family. Every scene is rendered with a Tolstoyan clarity and compassion.
—— Edmund WhiteA devastating portrayal of a decadent society and the inevitably violent uprising against it, in the tradition of such politically charged Indian literature as the work of Prem Chand, Manto and Mulk Raj Anand. It is ferocious, unsparing and brutally honest.
—— Anita DesaiBrilliant
—— Alexander Gilmour , FTPowerful… Mukherjee’s depiction of the tangled system…that develops when so many members of a family live under one roof is superb… In clear yet lyrical prose, Mukherjee carefully explores not just what it means to be part of a family, but what it means to be part of an unequal society… It’s impossible not to be utterly engaged by this intelligent and moving epic
—— Anna Carey , Sunday Business PostCompelling, affecting, intelligent and surprising… Bold and striking… Worked out with precision and gracefulness… Ambitious and eloquent, and in forgoing exoticism captures genuine humanity
—— Stuart Kelly , Scotland on SundayThe Lives of Others is searing, savage and deeply moving: an unforgettably vivid picture of a time of turmoil.
—— Amitav Ghosh (www.amitavghosh.com/blog)The writing’s assured, considered and lucid, the author’s observations of character wry and acute. He has a real talent for revealing people’s true intentions and why they act the way they do
—— Jessica Croome , Curious Animal MagazineMukherjee creates a believable world where the jealousies and rivalries of one family are representative of the country
—— Good Book GuideMemorably vivid and moving
—— Christie Hickman , Sunday ExpressA powerful generational story of the chasm between the haves and have-nots
—— Independent
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