Novel set mainly in ABRUZZO
Worldwide GIVEAWAY! 3 copies of “The Tainted” by Cauvery Madhavan – Raj era INDIA
7th June 2020
We are delighted to be able to offer a giveaway of 3 copies of The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan, set in Raj era India!
It’s spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with its heaving bazaar, reeking streets, and brothels. Everyone in Nandagiri knows their place and the part they were born to play–with one exception. The local Anglo-Indians, tainted by their mixed blood, belong nowhere. When news of the Black and Tans’ atrocities back in Ireland reaches the troops, even their priest cannot cool the men’s hot-headed rage. Politics vie with passion as Private Michael Flaherty pays court to Rose, Mrs. Aylmer’s Anglo-Indian maid, but mutiny brings heroism and heartbreak in equal measure. Only the arrival of Colonel Aylmer’s grandson Richard, some 60 years later, will set off the reckoning, when those who were parted will be reunited, and those who were lost will be found again.
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- Tell us in the comments below where you would choose to visit on a trip to India – would it be a favourite monument like the Taj Mahal, would it perhaps be Kerala where Arundhati Roy set her wonderful novel The God of Small Things or perhaps you would like to take the Toy Train to Shimla or see the painted towns of Rajasthan….
ENTER BY midnight, UK time on 20th June and the first three names out of the hat will be sent with grateful thanks to the publisher, HOPEROAD PUBLISHING. This competition is open WORLDWIDE!
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The winners are:
Claire T
Reading All over the world
SuchiMajum
I would love to visit the places mentioned in A Passage to India – this was mainly a fictional city of Chandrapore, but I would enjoy seeking out similar places.
Jaisalmer for the temples and fort
Karachi – for the food.
I would love to visit the Taj Mahal. I probably won’t be able to but escaping in a book is the next best thing!
Taj Mahal
I’d love to visit the medieval city of Orchha to see the 17th century palace the Raj Mahal.
I would like to visit the famous Taj Mahal!
I would love to go to Darjeeling and Kalimpong and visit the tea gardens.
Taj Mahal would be wonderful to visit
Would love to visit an ashram in India
Hello, I would like to visit the city of Rishikesh in India and sit by the Ganges.
A big fan of stories set in the British Raj, we need more of these. I would love to visit the place where the Tainted is set. Madhavan’s book is very intriguing and I feel visiting the place through the book will bring it alive for me.
Kerala
I would love to visit Mumbai – I’ve been there once and loved the vibrant, exciting city but only had one full day to explore it. I need to spend much, much longer there
I’d love to visit Hampi in Karnataka, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city ruins were my daughter’s favourite place when she back-packed around India many years ago.
I would choose to visit TajMahal in India.
I’m lucky enough to have been to India but would love to go back and revisit the Taj Mahal, etc. and also the safari parks and the bird sanctuary at Bharatpur. It was a great holiday.
Most definitely I would start with the Taj Mahal.
I have always wanted to go to Jaipur. To wander taking in the vibrant colours, the sights, sounds and smells!
I would love to revisit Kerala, I spent my 26th birthday on the beach at Kochi & it was a wonderful place!
But, having been watching ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’ on catch up recently, I am enchanted by Puducherry, with its French influences, so would like to visit there, too!
India is such a vast country, so different from North to South, East to West, that it would be very difficult to see it all, no matter how many months one spent travelling around!
It would have to be Goa!
Mumbai
It would be Goa for me
Mathura – to see Wildlife SOS who do such wonderful work for elephants.