Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war and nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood flees to Wickam Farm to recuperate. There she throws herself into helping set up a charity sending midwives to India. Then Kit meets Anto, a handsome, complicated but charming trainee doctor nearing the end of his English education, and she falls utterly in love. But when Anto informs his family that he is to return home with an English bride, his parents are appalled. As they journey to a new life in India, Kit begins to realise the seriousness of what she has undertaken.
The author of the bestselling, award-winning East of the Sun returns with a captivating World War II love story 1942. Saba Tarcan is a talented young singer with big dreams. So when an opportunity arises to entertain the troops in the Middle East, she jumps at the chance, cutting short a burgeoning love affair with a young RAF pilot, Dom. It soon becomes clear that entertaining won't be Saba's only mission. It's a move that will jeopardize not only her own safety, but also the love of her life. Based on the stories of the many female entertainers used as unofficial spies during World War II, Jasmine Nights is a powerful story of danger, beauty and love.
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind.
Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows.
Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband.
And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
Each of them has their own reason for leaving their homeland but the hopes and secrets they carry can do little to prepare them for what lies ahead in India...
