Where the Bulbul Sings
by
Serena Fairfax
The past and the present interweave - from the last days
of the Raj to the present day, and from the small railway town of Ajeemkot and
the princely state of Walipur to the cutting edge of the modern city of Delhi,
and Sivalik - a pine scented hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas.
In this
atmospheric, passionate and poignant account of a clash of cultures, caste and
creed, divided family loyalties, wealthy heartthrobs and the power of love, the
story is told through three women and an
American Baptist missionary couple whose lives entwine. Can they confront the storms or are their
dreams destined to shatter?
Hermie -
a headstrong and bewitching Anglo-Indian - turns her back on the Anglo-Indian
community and reinvents herself only to find that a dark secret threatens to
send her life spiralling out of control and cost her everything.
Sharp-witted
Edith, exiled in India from her native Germany by Nazi persecution, faces stark
choices in a future very different from that she envisaged.
Feisty Kay,
separated by more than a generation from Hermie and Edith, is haunted by a
family mystery and risks her prospects in London to pursue a quest for roots in
India where fate hurtles her in an unexpected direction.
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