He learns of Winter's wealth, and although considerably older than her, realises her fortune could be his if he is prepared to wait a few years. When eleven years old, Winter meets a distant relative, the ambitious Conway Barton who is on leave from his administrative post in India. She is accompanied by her Indian nurse, Zobeida, who keeps Winter's memories of the country of her birth alive by telling stories of her time spent at the Gulab Mahal, promising that one day they will return there and live happily ever after. Six-year-old orphaned heiress, Winter de Ballesteros, born in India of English and Spanish parents, is sent to England to live with her great-great-grandfather, the Earl of Ware. Kaye originally wrote it and this is the edition I have reviewed. However, in 1979 Shadow of the Moon was re-released as M.M. Of India, The Far Pavilions (1978), probably due to the severe editing where many of the action scenes were removed.

Shadow of the Moon was first published in 1957, but was not as popular as M.M. So when I saw that Helen was joining Cirtnecce and Cleo in a Read Along, I decided to join them.Īt the start of the Read Along, additional background on the Company Raj and an overview of how the mutiny spread was supplied by Cirtnecce, which gave me a better grasp of the situation in India at the time of the novel. Shadow of the Moon, set in India before and during the Sepoy rebellion of 1857, was one of those books that I'd been meaning to read but never got around to.

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