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The Journeys of Rowena Sunita Singh
The Journeys of Rowena Sunita Singh
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...a lost and violated girl, surrounded by the stench of coal and thick smogs. Raped repeatedly by her father she runs away to London, and after trying her hand at different jobs she gets a place as a nursing auliliary in a hospital. At a dance she meets an Indian aristocrat, and after a brief courtship they plan to marry. When they ask permission of her father the latter sells his daughter like a lorry-load of coal for £50. ...her journeys in India begin... In a time of huge political and soc…
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  • ISBN-10: 1438907494
  • ISBN-13: 9781438907499
  • Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
  • Language: English
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...a lost and violated girl, surrounded by the stench of coal and thick smogs. Raped repeatedly by her father she runs away to London, and after trying her hand at different jobs she gets a place as a nursing auliliary in a hospital. At a dance she meets an Indian aristocrat, and after a brief courtship they plan to marry. When they ask permission of her father the latter sells his daughter like a lorry-load of coal for £50. ...her journeys in India begin... In a time of huge political and social upheaval, with many disturbing riots in India she, with the help of the British Government returns to South Wales with her five half-cast children, in a land where there is very little immigration. On the boat voyage over, tired and bitter about being "used", and totally suspicious of men she meets her beloved, whom she first scolds as she thinks that he is after her eldest daughter, now a very beautiful teenager. Their journey continues, and their expereinces are many, varied and ofetn extreme... ...it is said that fact is stranger than fiction...

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  • Author: Guy Jones
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  • ISBN-10: 1438907494
  • ISBN-13: 9781438907499
  • Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
  • Language: English English

...a lost and violated girl, surrounded by the stench of coal and thick smogs. Raped repeatedly by her father she runs away to London, and after trying her hand at different jobs she gets a place as a nursing auliliary in a hospital. At a dance she meets an Indian aristocrat, and after a brief courtship they plan to marry. When they ask permission of her father the latter sells his daughter like a lorry-load of coal for £50. ...her journeys in India begin... In a time of huge political and social upheaval, with many disturbing riots in India she, with the help of the British Government returns to South Wales with her five half-cast children, in a land where there is very little immigration. On the boat voyage over, tired and bitter about being "used", and totally suspicious of men she meets her beloved, whom she first scolds as she thinks that he is after her eldest daughter, now a very beautiful teenager. Their journey continues, and their expereinces are many, varied and ofetn extreme... ...it is said that fact is stranger than fiction...

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