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Title: The India Fan
ISBN: 0449216977
Author:
Victoria Holt
Publicate Date: 1989-07-30
Publish: 1989-07-30
List Price: $5.99
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: Romance and India.
Historical Romance with a touch of the Gothic.
The India Fan is an heirloom. Framling family legend considers it cursed, capable of visiting tragedy to it's possessor.
Vicar's daughter, Drusilla, is befriended by wealthy siblings, Fabian and Lavinia Framling.
Lavinia and Drusilla are sent to a French boarding school to complete their education. Lavinia succeeds at a certain type of education, and is soon pregnant by a deceitful seducer. This results in a secret confinement at a discrete "clinic". The child is born and quickly adopted.
Shallow Lavinia focuses on her upcoming Season and suitors, heedless of the entire incident.
The Framlings have close trading ties with the East India trading company. Sir Fabian, Lavinia and her husband, Dougal are living in India.
Drusilla, after her father's death, is invited out to Bombay. Lavinia needs a Companion and her children need a Governess.
All is not well. Selfish Lavinia is bored. Dougal is disillusioned by his wife and marriage. The family is relocating to the Company's headquarters in Delhi. Where they will be reunited with Sir Fabian.
The situation goes from bad to worse. There is increased unrest amongst the native Indian population. It erupts into open revolt. Drusilla and her young charges, with the help of Sir Fabian, must survive the violent taking of Delhi.
This fast-paced romance includes blackmail, arson, murder, and the horrific Sepoy Rebellion.
Recommended.
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2: Romance and the East India Company.
Slightly gothic, historical romance.
The India Fan is a Framling family heirloom. Legend states that it is cursed and can bring only unhappiness to it's possessor.
Vicar's daughter, Drusilla, is befriended by wealthy siblings, Fabian and Lavinia Framling.
The Framlings have close trading ties with the East India Company. Sir Fabian travels frequently to India on trading business.
Lavinia and Drusilla are sent to a French boarding school to complete their education. Flirtatious Lavinia succeeds at a certain type of education and becomes pregnant by a deceitful seducer. This results in a secret confinement at a discreet "clinic". The child is born, and quickly adopted.
Shallow Lavinia focuses on her upcoming Season and suitors, heedless of the entire incident. But someone remembers and Lavinia will be made to pay.
Drusilla's father dies after a long illness. Sir Fabian, Lavinia and her husband, Dougal, are living in India. Drusilla is invited out to Bombay, to serve as Lavinia's companion and teacher to her children.
All is not well. Selfish Lavinia is bored. Dougal is disillusioned by his wife and marriage. The Company's headquarters are in Delhi. Soon the family is relocating to Delhi and reunited with Sir Fabian.
There is increased unrest amongst the native Indian population. Finally it erupts into open revolt. Drusilla and her charges must survive the violent taking of Delhi.
This romance includes blackmail, arson, murder and (to top it all off) the horrific Sepoy Rebellion.
Recommended.
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3: my very first VH book!!!
My friend gave this book to me because the book was "thicker" than what she used to reading, and till this day I still thank her for giving me this book for it is a GEM!!!! I tried reading it on a whim and was hooked by midway through the 2nd chapter. The story was soooo addictive that I neglected my school works to read it; I read it in class while my teachers (I was in high school) lectured. I think what made this story different and why it has made a lasting impression on me was the way Holt expland the time the plot takes place. Other stories have their main characters married or fell in love by 6-8 months (some sooner and some later) but Holt takes you through a journey that took years to happen, and she gave all her secondary characters dimension and depth. I may or may not be making sense in my fascination w/ Ms. Holt's work, but other Holt fans would understand me (i hope :D). I also loved how Ms. Holt created the air of romance without (too much of, if at all) pre-marital sex. Call me crazy but i was sooo into her characters that long after finishing the book, i sometimes wondered how "Fabian and Drusilla are doing now, or how many children did they end up having...etc"
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4: Loved it!
I rank The India Fan as one of Victoria Holt's best. Drusilla is an excellent narrator and as in Holt's best, the romance doesn't blindside you out of nowhere, nor does the "hea" seem incongruous because we're shown Fabian's growth and love for her through their interactions. And as is apparent in most of Holt's novels, The India Fan doesn't stint on the lush, vivid descriptions of Indian life and the massacre at Lucknow.
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5: My Second V.H book!
This is my second Victoria Holt book and it is so beautiful. Although I don't get why saves Lavinia so many times , although she does get rewarded. It's a good thing that Lavinia dies anyway.She defineitly deservered that.But this is a pretty story but not as 'The Silk Vendetta', which is a 10 times better than this . But still it is addicting. I recommend this to anybody who likes romance and mystery . But this one has more mystery and doesn't really tell about the Indian culture that well.
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