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A review by dennasus
Monsoon Summer by Julia Gregson
3.0
This story is set in the post WWII years and starts in England where nurse / midwife Kit Smallwood meets and falls in love with Anto, a young doctor from India, who is finishing his medical education. After their marriage they move to India, which had just recently gained independence from Great Britain and where Kit isn’t welcomed with open arms, neither from Anto’s family nor the midwives community.
I admit, I didn’t – and still don’t – know a lot about India neither while it was still under British rule nor after their independence. Reading about this foreign culture and country and to see it through Kit’s eyes was interesting and educational. I didn’t get overly attached to the main characters though, which is why their lives and fate didn’t move or touch me as other stories have.
I admit, I didn’t – and still don’t – know a lot about India neither while it was still under British rule nor after their independence. Reading about this foreign culture and country and to see it through Kit’s eyes was interesting and educational. I didn’t get overly attached to the main characters though, which is why their lives and fate didn’t move or touch me as other stories have.