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For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing, and flirtations under the aegis of the omnipotent East India company. But a brutal awakening lies in store for the complacent British: one May night, after 30 years of abuse, the East India Company's native soldiers rise up against their British officers. Caught up in the violence is pretty Sophie Hardcastle, a young wife and mother newly arrived from England. As she searches for her infant son, missing in the chaos, Sophie finds herself bearing witness to atrocities on both sides. Moving, somber, and thrilling, Rathbone's tale is told on a grand scale, ranging from the Cannings in Government House to the heroism of the humblest soldiers and peasants. It is as exhilarating as any Victorian adventure story, and yet, with its unflinching examination of religious fanaticism and the horrors of war, The Mutiny also carries a powerful message for the modern world.
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Julian Rathbone is the author of many books, including the bestselling THE LAST ENGLISH KING, KINGS OF ALBION and the Booker shortlisted JOSEPH, as well as the hugely acclaimed A VERY ENGLISH AGENT.
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"Rathbone masterfully details and humanizes this traumatic historical episode without resorting to hyperbolic melodrama." —Booklist
"Larger even than the conflict itself is India, elegantly and luminously brought to life in the consistently scintillating prose of this novel of real accomplishment." —The Times
"Enjoyable and exciting to read . . . Rathbone reveals himself to be a novelist of skill, compassion, and imagination." —Times Literary Supplement
"Fiction that movingly reanimates the history upon which it draws." —Sunday Times
"Ambitious, sweeping" —Sunday Telegraph
"One of the best historical novelists around." —The Herald
"Larger even than the conflict itself is India, elegantly and luminously brought to life in the consistently scintillating prose of this novel of real accomplishment." —The Times
"Enjoyable and exciting to read . . . Rathbone reveals himself to be a novelist of skill, compassion, and imagination." —Times Literary Supplement
"Fiction that movingly reanimates the history upon which it draws." —Sunday Times
"Ambitious, sweeping" —Sunday Telegraph
"One of the best historical novelists around." —The Herald
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- PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0316731137
- ISBN 13 9780316731133
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