Set in the late 1700s in colonial India, this YA historical novel is told through the eyes of a teen-aged girl, whose Indian mother is dead, and Irish father disappeared. Because of her ability as an artist, Anila is able to get a job accompanying an English naturalist on his quest on the Ganges River for unknown bird species while she tries to find out where her father might be.
There is a lot depicted about the Indian attitude towards women, and the attitude of the British overlords to the Indian people as a whole and Indian women in particular. There are no graphic sexual scenes, but sex without marriage is rife.
There is a lot depicted about the Indian attitude towards women, and the attitude of the British overlords to the Indian people as a whole and Indian women in particular. There are no graphic sexual scenes, but sex without marriage is rife.
