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Of Marriageable Age - Sharon Maas

A spellbinding story of forbidden love.

Three continents, three decades,

three very disparate lives:

Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows

up among the servants of a pre-war

English household in Madras. But the

traditional customs of her Brahmin

family clash against English upper-classprejudice, threatening her love for the

privileged son of the house.

Nataraj, raised as the son of an idealistic

doctor in rural South India, nds life in

London heady, with girls and grass easily

available until he is summoned back

home to face raw reality.

Saroj, her re hidden by outwardreserve, comes of age in Guyana, South

America. When her strict, orthodox Hindu

father goes one step too far she nally

rebels against him... and even against her gentle, apparently docile Ma.

But Ma harbours a deep secret one that binds these three so disparate

lives and hurtles them towards a truth that could destroy their world.

Praise for Of Marriageable Age'A vast canvas of memorable charactersacross a kaleidoscope of cultures

her epic story feels like an authentic reection of a world full of sadness, joy

and surprise.'The Observer

'It's a wonderful panoramic story and conveys such vivid pictures of the countries it

portraysI was immediately transported and completely captivated. A terric writer.'Barbara Erskine

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About Sharon

Sharon Maas was born in Georgetown, Guyana. Shecame from a prominently political family. Her mother wasone of Guyana's earliest feminists, human rights activistsand consumer advocates; her father was Press Secretaryto the Marxist opposition leader and later President ofGuyana, Dr Cheddi Jagan.

She was educated in Guyana and England. After leavingschool she worked as a trainee reporter with the GuyanaGraphic in Georgetown, Guyana. She later wrote featurearticles for the Sunday Chronicle as a staff journalist.

Sharon spent 1971 and 1972 travelling around Brazil,Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Her travel articles werepublished in the Chronicle. In 1973 she travelled overlandto India via England, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. After two years inIndia she moved to Germany. Sharon now divides her time between England andGermany with her husband and two children.

Of Marriageable Age

Publication date: 14 March 2014Author: Sharon MaasPublisher: BookoutureGenre: Literary FictioneISBN: 978-1-909490-23-9ISBN: 978-1-909490-24-6Pages: 546Word Count: 184,000

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'A big book, big themes, an exotic background and characters that will live withyou forever unputdownable.' Katie Fforde

'From the rst page I was hooked with this enchantingbook unputdownable.'Audrey Howard

'Beautifully and cleverly written. A wondrous, spellbinding story which grips you fromthe rst to the last page I can't recall when I last enjoyed a book so much.'Lesley Pearse

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