Review: A trip to India in good company
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2012
Elizabeth Chater is not the deepest author out there, but her stories always include enough warmth and insight to merit a read.  In this particular book, the reader also gets a trip from England to Calcutta and then from Calcutta to the northern reaches of India.  I thought the historical details were very good, as well as the insights into how the British military and business people treated each other.  Chater throws in a bit of Eastern mysticism and a relatively complex view of Indian life in the 1850s.  The only silliness is a heroine who stays too long with a man who doesn't love her while two other worthy suitors wait for her to make up her mind.  Otherwise, there's lots of beauty and passion in this picaresque tale.  It leaves you wanting more . . . .