The peachgrowers' almanac
By: Elaine di Rollo
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847827647
Subjects: Fiction; Sepoy Rebellion (India : 1857-1858) fast (OCoLC)fst01354692; Twins; Sisters; Young women; History
Description: Set in 1857, between England and India, The Peachgrowers' Almanac is a rollicking novel about feisty women, the devotion of sisters and the Victorian obsession with empire, experiments and photography. Lilian and Alice are twin sisters, living with their eccentric father at the Great House. Lilian, in mysterious disgrace, is married off to a dreary missionary and goes to live in India. Alice is left at home, curator to her father's monstrous collection of artefacts, under the watchful eye of the malevolent Dr Cattermole ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2008.