Waterstones The Satapur Moonstone
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ISBN: 9781641291316
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Author: Dick Pearson
Rating: 5
Review: My heading says it all for me - Interesting heroine, good story, well written: what more could you want. A truly excellent read. I love the atmosphere evoked of a very, very different lifestyle in 1920s British India. I, of course, as an English white male have no real idea of just how accurate the representation of the life of a Parsi female a hundred years ago is, but it seems reasonable. One minor gripe is the occasional discordant note of Americanisms in the English which, though understandable given the author's background, seem incongruous in a tale of of British India.
Author: Boingboing
Rating: 4
Review: I haven't read the first Perveen Mistry book but didn't find that caused any issues when reading 'The Satapur Moonstone'. Perveen is a really fascinating character; a 1920s woman lawyer who supports Gandhi's independence movement, has studied at Oxford and works for the family law firm, and she's a Parsi who is separated from her abusive husband but can't (for technical reasons) get a divorce. Great stuff. I'm fascinated by Zoroastrianism (after a trip to Yazd in Iran) and each time I go to Mumbai, I'm drawn to the magical aura of fire temples and towers of silence. Perveen has been hired to go to one of the Princely States called Satapur in the Western Ghats - not a region that's overly represented in fiction about India. The royal family is in turmoil following a string of tragic 'accidents' that leaves the state with a boy-maharaja who is too young to take on his role. His grandmother doesn't want him to leave the palace whilst his modernist mother wants him to be sent abroad to school for his own protection. Perveen is to meet the family and make recommendations on the boy's future. The palace is cut off from the world, accessible only by horseback or the archaic system of palanquins. She goes initially to the home of the local British civil servant who serves technically as guardian to the young maharaja and his sister. He's a veteran of the Great War, a hero and an amputee and Perveen has to fight her attraction to this man. With the help of Colin, his brahmin priest helper Rama, a glamorous retired dancer and some of the palace staff, Perveen has to get to the bottom of what seems to be a curse on the royal family but is almost certainly something less mystical but equally threatening. Reading the afterword, it's clear that Massey put a lot of research into her book. To the casual reader, life at the palace seems altogether too primitive to really be representative of the 1920s but I've no reason to doubt its authenticity. Perveen is an oddly understated and very 'careful' character but a plucky one - as you'd expect from her role as a pioneering female lawyer. I'll admit I didn't know who was behind the killings and was successfully led astray by the author. Good stuff! I would like to read more books in this series.
