The Diamond Daughter

Name: The Diamond Daughter
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Janet MacLeod Trotter
ISBN: 9781407999524

Author: Janet MacLeod Trotter

Narrator: Lesley Mackie

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 07/01/2022

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Filled with excitement and trepidation, Jeanie Munro is returning to India and her husband Mungo, having been forced apart from him by the Second World War. Together, they can start their longed-for family. But post-war India is in a ferment of change and the undercurrents of tension begin to disturb their tranquillity. Still grieving for her beloved brother, killed in action, Jeanie tries to make the most of her new life. Her only true friends are the Lomaxes, a family haunted by scandal and owners of the glamorous Raj Hotel. She is especially drawn to handsome, fun-loving Rick - but knows she must not allow their mutual attraction to grow. Then, just as Jeanie is becoming reconciled to her lot, long-buried secrets come to light that shake her world to the core - and leave her facing the hardest decisions of her life.

About Janet MacLeod Trotter

Janet MacLeod Trotter is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed novels, including The Hungry Hills, which was nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and The Tea Planter’s Daughter, which was nominated for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year Award. Much informed by her own experiences, Macleod Trotter was raised in the north-east of England by Scottish parents and travelled in India as a young woman. She recently discovered diaries and letters belonging to her grandparents, who married in Lahore and lived and worked in the Punjab for nearly thirty years, which served as her inspiration for the India Tea Series. She now divides her time between Northumberland and the Isle of Skye.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Egle (readingfreakquotes)

What an ending to the series!!!! Found a bit slow to get into at the beginning, otherwise it would have been 5*......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

I was a little disappointed in this third book in the Raj Hotel Series because in the beginning it didn’t really link to the two earlier books. It wasn’t a bad read as it dealt with some of the social and political issues taking place in India after WWII and the second half did tie it back to the or......more

Goodreads review by Helen

Disappointed with this one. For starters it didn't follow the next generation like book 2 had from book 1, it followed minor characters instead which I hadn't already got an affinity with. Then there were three bombshells right near the end, the first I'd already guessed about Mungo so wasn't a bomb......more

Goodreads review by Sheila

loved it, great story to follow the other two. I love reading the new generations stories, with little tidbits and turns from the old ones. I especially loved the historical and cultural elements of the books. Makes me want to dive deeper into it all. This one didn’t have audio, for which I was a bi......more