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The Lady of Cawnpore — Elisabeth McNeill
A tale of friendship and compassion in India
Following the massacre at Cawnpore in 1857, Emily and her sister Lucy are captured and held at the Bibighar, the house of the Indian mistress of the British Nabob. Years later, in 1919, a young British doctor called Jenny Garland encounters an elderly woman living in terrible poverty in the slums of the Cawnpore Bazaar. As friendship grows between them, Jenny discovers that they share a history neither of them could ever have imagined.
Following the massacre at Cawnpore in 1857, Emily and her sister Lucy are captured and held at the Bibighar, the house of the Indian mistress of the British Nabob. Years later, in 1919, a young British doctor called Jenny Garland encounters an elderly woman living in terrible poverty in the slums of the Cawnpore Bazaar. As friendship grows between them, Jenny discovers that they share a history neither of them could ever have imagined.
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