‘Belonging’, Pub: Myriad Editions, 2015

The novel is set in India and Sussex and tells the story of three generations of a British colonial family in India between 1855 and 1919. It covers the period from what is known as ‘The Indian Mutiny’ in Britain, and ‘The War of Independence’ in India, when north India rose against British rule, resulting in savage atrocities on both sides. The novel continues up to the end of the First World War when 1.5 million soldiers volunteered to fight for the British in Europe.

‘The Fallen’, currently with agency Pearlman and Lacey

‘The Fallen’ is set between 1943 and 1949 and tells the stories of Rana Singh, an officer escapee from an Indian POW camp in Italy, and of Zola Sabatini, a young girl on a farm in Abruzzo, whose family takes him in. The novel examines the different lived realities of men and women in war, their subsequent attempts to come to terms with their own traumatic memories, and their difficulty in understanding each other’s experiences in order to reconnect.