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The Sandalwood Tree

The Sandalwood Tree

Author(s): Elle Newmark

Location(s): India

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance

Era(s): 1947

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It is 1947, and Evie and Martin Mitchell have just arrived in the Indian village of Masoorla with their five-year-old son. But cracks soon appear in their marriage as Evie struggles to adapt to her new life, and Martin fails to bury unbearable wartime memories.
When Evie finds a collection of letters, concealed deep in the brickwork of their rented bungalow, so begins an investigation that consumes her, allowing her to escape to another world, a hundred years earlier, and to the extraordinary friendship of two very different young women.
And as Evie’s fascination with her Victorian discoveries deepens, she unearths powerful secrets. But at what cost to her present, already fragile existence?

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The Sandalwood Tree is set in India, and the aspect I like most are the wonderful, almost lyrical descriptions of the sights and smells of that country -Treza100-

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