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Under the Jewelled Sky
[Paperback - 2014]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Historical Romance
Publisher: Orion Uk | ISBN: 9781409135524 | Pages: 352
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India, 1947. As daughter to the personal physican of an Indian Maharaja, Sophie Schofield spends her days exploring the palace and trying to stave off the loneliness she feels. She makes an unlikely friend but soon loses her heart - to the one person she shouldn't fall in love with.

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 25 years before retiring to write full time.Her acclaimed 2012 epic novel,The Secret Children, was inspired by her own family history, and has been translated into several foreign languages. Alison’s latest novel,Under The Jewelled Sky, winner of the prestigious 2014 EMBA Prize, is published by Orion (UK) and by Sourcebooks (US).Alison is also author of the popularHOUSEWIFEnovels, written under her married name and featured on the Richard & Judy Show (published by Macmillan between 2005 and 2011). In 2006, Alison was selected from a long list of 500 writers to joinThe Writers' Circle- a one-off project put together by the UK/US film industry to nuture and fast-track the UK's top 10 rising writing talents into screenwriting.Alison McQueen lives in rural Northamptonshire with her family. She is currently working on her 8th novel.

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