Alison McQueen. (2014). Under the Jeweled Sky. Sourcebooks.

Alison McQueen. 2014. Under the Jeweled Sky. Sourcebooks.

Alison McQueen, Under the Jeweled Sky. Sourcebooks, 2014.

Alison McQueen. Under the Jeweled Sky. Sourcebooks, 2014.

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     Born in the sixties to an Indian mother and an English jazz musician father, Alison McQueen grew up in London and worked in advertising for twenty years before retiring to write full time. She lives in a quiet English village with her husband and two daughters.

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"Beautiful and brave and bittersweet—a moving story of how love in all its forms binds us together and endures, in spite of everything."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of The Firebird and The Winter Sea

Breathtaking historical fiction by Alison McQueen that illuminates forbidden love and devastating consequences.

New Delhi, 1957. The moment Sophie steps onto India's burning soil, she realizes her return was inevitable. But this is not the India she fell in love with ten years before in a maharaja's palace. This is not the India that ripped her heart out as Partition tore the country in two. That India, a place of tigers, scorpions, and shimmering beauty, is long gone, and Sophie's new marriage only highlights the world she has lost.

Drawing on her own family's heritage, acclaimed novelist Alison McQueen beautifully portrays the heart of a woman who must confront the mistakes of her past in order to fight for her future.

In Under the Jeweled Sky, McQueen deftly explores the loss of innocence, the urgency of forbidden love, and how far we'll go to find our hearts.

"Bursting with the evocative glow of long-forgotten India...lures you into a beautiful story of scandal, hope, and the kind of love that marks us forever."—Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House

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   • source: Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House
   • content: "Bursting with the evocative glow of long-forgotten India, Under the Jeweled Sky lures you into a beautiful story of scandal, hope, and the kind of love that marks us forever. An unforgettable, irresistible tale that wraps around your heart and won't let go. "
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   • source: Rebel Housewife
   • content: "Under the Jeweled Sky is a truly breathtaking novel. Set in India at the moment of Partition and Independence, a decade unfolds in an amazing Indian Romeo & British Juliet tragic adventure, with evocative elements of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Stunning detail and language. "
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   • source: The Insomniac Bibliophile
   • content: "This novel reminded me of a hot summer evening. Slow-moving, languid and sensual... Worth staying up all night to read? Yes. Beautiful, yet painfully, romantic."
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   • source: The Bookish Reviews
   • content: "Under the Jeweled Sky is much more than the romance novel...It is about India...Totally recommended to all those who are interested in historical fiction."
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   • source: Our Book Club
   • content: "As the book draws to its conclusion it throws up a considerable amount of unexpected twists, placing it above most books in this genre and a word of warning - you will find yourself grabbing a box of tissues at more than one point."
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   • source: Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of The Firebird and The Winter Sea
   • content: "Beautiful and brave and bittersweet — a moving story of how love in all its forms binds us together and endures, in spite of everything."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "McQueen has a fine sense of place and character... A richly imagined story of love, politics and fate."
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   • source: Cayocosta72
   • content: "Beautifully written, evocative of a forgotten age. Readers will be transported through time and space."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "An emotional coming-of-age journey...McQueen expertly captures the innocence and passion of young love-and how it can so quickly turn into something tragic when politics and the realities of adulthood get in the way. This historical page-turner deals out hope and heartbreak in turn, hurtling the reader toward its devastating denouement. "
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    • source: Samantha Everett (Librarian
    • content: "Beautifully written and the setting of India was brilliantly captured. "
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    • source: Literate Ceillie
    • content: "The writing was absolutely stunning, the characters were wonderfully balanced."
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    • source: Rott-I-Tude
    • content: "A beautiful, but sad story. I didn't want it to end."
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    • source: Ashley LaMar, Closed the Cover
    • content: "A captivating romance, Under the Jeweled Sky is a novel I highly recommend. It is an intoxicating story, beautifully written, and hauntingly romantic."
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    • source: Mom's Small Victories
    • content: "This book has it all: the lush, tropical landscape of an Indian palace, forbidden and intense first love, dramatic heartbreaks and tragedy and the joys of family, defining home and the strength of the human spirit."
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    • source: Book-alicious Mama
    • content: "The central love story between Sophie and Jag is captivating and the overall story that McQueen has written is breathtaking and absorbing...If you like historical fiction with a love story woven through them, then Under the Jeweled Sky is for you! "
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      November 4, 2013
      McQueen (The Secret Children) takes readers on an emotional coming-of-age journey in her latest novel. In 1947, Dr. Shofield moves his 18-year-old daughter Sophie and bitter wife Veronica from their London home to India, where he has accepted a position as a Maharaja’s doctor. With nothing to do but explore the palatial grounds, Sophie meets Jag, the son of a palace servant, who shows her hidden passageways, while over time carving a path straight to her heart. In Romeo and Juliet fashion, the two have explicitly been told they aren’t to socialize, much less fall in love. But something binds them deeper than their parents’ strict orders, even after Jag is sent away. Years later, Sophie returns to India with her British husband and finds that as much as she tried to quell them over the years, the memories of her first love—and the painful secret they share—have never truly left her. McQueen expertly captures the innocence and passion of young love—and how it can so quickly turn into something tragic when politics and the realities of adulthood get in the way. This historical page-turner deals out hope and heartbreak in turn, hurtling the reader toward its devastating denouement. Agent; Grainne Fox, Fletcher & Co.

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      November 1, 2013
      In this ill-fated romance between a British girl and an Indian boy during India's independence, the author opens the doors to a maharaja's palace, follows the bloody massacres of partition and uncovers the sordid secrets of the diplomatic community in Delhi. In 1947, Sophie finds herself in a maharaja's palace, a far cry from the privations of postwar England. While her physician father is kept busy tending to the hypochondria of the first and second maharinis and her mother stays in their rooms to avoid the "heathens," Sophie explores a wonderland. The vast rooms and gardens are beautiful but lonely until she meets Jag, the maharaja's bearer's son, who shows her the palace's hidden passages. A romance develops between the two teens, one consummated under the fireworks of India's independence celebration. When their relationship is discovered, Jag and his father are forced to leave the palace. Then, Sophie discovers she's pregnant, and her broken family (her parents despise each other, and her mother has beaten Sophie since childhood) splinters apart. Sophie is sent to a home for "girls like her," her mother returns to England, never to be heard from again (save for one venomous meeting), and her kind father begins to work at the refugee camps that have sprung up in the wake of partition. After her baby is born and left for adoption, Sophie goes to England and meets her future husband, Lucien, a diplomat in need of a wife, particularly one who has lived in India, the jewel of foreign assignments. Back in India, Sophie is miserable, constrained by life in a diplomatic colony, ignored and abused by a husband who is worse than her mother, and longing for her first love. Jag is close by, having tracked Sophie to Delhi, a secret waiting for her at his home. McQueen has a fine sense of place and character--the one flaw is the odd organization; the narration jumps back and forth in time indiscriminately, dampening the emotional impact of this historical tear-jerker. A richly imagined story of love, politics and fate, but one with a sometimes-jerky narrative pace.

      COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      December 15, 2013
      In the waning post-WWII days of British rule over India, foreign service postings seemed pretty cushy. Maharajas with multiple wives, or maharanis, oversaw princely states from elaborate palaces. The British foreign service settled in as welcome guests in the maharaja's domain, where cocktail parties and gossip were rampant. British writer McQueen sets her latest novel in this splendorous scene and brings together Sophie Schofield, the daughter of a British doctor and his obsessively prudish wife, and Jag, the son of a Hindu bearer to the maharaja. With the coming partition, an anxious anticipation settles on all who remain. Jag takes Sophie on backstage tours through hidden passageways, where she learns to love the beauty of the palace, and Jag, of course. The story flows easily between 1947 and 1958 as the tale of these star-crossed lovers unfolds. Rich with history and a candid view of the racism, discrimination, and sexism of the day, McQueen's historical novel provides more than a compelling story set in an exotic locale. Part mystery, part romance, it defines love's bond through time.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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"Beautiful and brave and bittersweet—a moving story of how love in all its forms binds us together and endures, in spite of everything."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of The Firebird and The Winter Sea

Breathtaking historical fiction by Alison McQueen that illuminates forbidden love and devastating consequences.

New Delhi, 1957. The moment Sophie steps onto India's burning soil, she realizes her return was inevitable. But this is not the India she fell in love with ten years before in a maharaja's palace. This is not the India that ripped her heart out as Partition tore the country in two. That India, a place of tigers, scorpions, and shimmering beauty, is long gone, and Sophie's new marriage only highlights the world she has lost.

Drawing on her own family's heritage, acclaimed novelist Alison McQueen beautifully portrays the heart of a woman who must confront the mistakes of her past in order to fight...

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