{"product_id":"9781476725307","title":"Monsoon Summer: A Novel","description":"By the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEast of the Sun, \u003c\/i\u003e“a powerful and memorable novel” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly) \u003c\/i\u003eabout the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThen Kit meets Anto, an Indian doctor finishing his medical training at Oxford. But Kit’s light-skinned mother is in fact Anglo-Indian with secrets of her own, and Anto is everything she does not want for her daughter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDespite the threat of estrangement, Kit is excited for the future, hungry for adventure, and deeply in love. She and Anto secretly marry and set off for South India—where Kit plans to run the maternity hospital she’s helped from afar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut Kit’s life in India does not turn out as she imagined. Anto’s large, traditional family wanted him to marry an Indian bride and find it hard to accept Kit. As their relationship begins to fray, Kit’s job becomes fraught with tension as they both face a newly independent India, where riots have left millions dead and there is deep-rooted suspicion of the English. In a rapidly changing world, Kit’s naiveté is to land her in a frightening and dangerous situation...\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBased on true accounts of European midwives in India, \u003ci\u003eMonsoon Summer\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful story of secrets, the nature of home, the comforts and frustrations of family, and how far we’ll go to be with those we love.","brand":"Touchstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126257369328,"sku":"9781476725307","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476725307_p0.jpg?v=1763609414","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476725307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}