As Menakshi reads Julian’s book, she returns to a vanished world where luxury and deprivation co-exist in the same grand bungalow – and romance breaks all rules in the hills of Darjeeling and on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. She’d pushed away all her old feelings for Julian… but now they’re back. For the rulers of India, it was a glorious period but for Menakshi, it’s a time she’d rather forget. The 1920s British Raj was an era of expansive homes and gardens, elegant rail travel, and very strict divisions between Indians, Anglo-Indians and the British. His book is about those old days, and features the two of them as named characters. She discovers a book written by Julian Winslett, a British war hero and writer, who was a young boy she cared for while working as a 16-year-old nanny in Bengal. In 1952, Menakshi walks into a Penang library during the rainy season. Sujata Massey Synopsis: The Ayah’s Tale is a novella by Sujata Massey. If You Like Sujata Massey Books, You’ll Love… The Sleeping Dictionary was also published as The City of Palaces. Killer Femmes 2: Small Bites also includes stories by Libby Fischer Hellmann, Christine Kling, Zoe Sharp and Julie Smith. Notes: The Widows of Malabar Hill is also known as A Murder on Malabar Hill.
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