Meet Me in Bombay

Name: Meet Me in Bombay
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Jenny Ashcroft
ISBN: 9781250789730

Author: Jenny Ashcroft

Narrator: Aysha Kala

Unabridged: 14 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 01/19/2021

Categories: Fiction, Women, Historical Fiction, Romance

Synopsis

All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is.

Jenny Ashcroft's "Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy." –Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author

It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives.

Bold and charismatic, Luke opens her eyes to the wonders of Bombay, while Maddy's beauty and vivacity captures his heart. Only her mother disapproves, preferring the devoted Guy Bowen as a match for her daughter.

But while Maddy and Luke are falling in love, the world is falling apart. World War I is on the horizon, and Luke will be given no choice but to fight. They will be continents apart, separated by danger and devastating loss, but bound by Luke's promise that they will meet again in Bombay.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About Jenny Ashcroft

JENNY ASHCROFT is a British author of historical fiction books including Meet Me in Bombay. She has a degree from Oxford University in history, and has always been fascinated by the past—in particular the way that extraordinary events can transform the lives of normal people.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

Meet Me In Bombay is one of the best historical fiction books I’ve ever read! Meet Me In Bombay is about British soldiers and their families living in India during World War I. This is a story of love, loss, family and friendship. I have nothing I would change about the book. Meet Me In Bombay is a f......more

Goodreads review by Annette

India, 1914. Maddy Bright, after finishing her school in England, returns to Bombay, where her father is stationed. Upon her return, she meets Luke Devereaux, who now occupies her thoughts constantly. He encourages her to explore the city by sending her a quidebook as he is away at first. Once, he i......more

Goodreads review by Bkwmlee

As my first official read of the new year, Jenny Ashcroft’s Meet Me in Bombay is a book that I found difficult to put down as soon as I started reading it. When I first read the book’s summary and saw that the premise would be a love story set in Bombay, against the backdrop of the Great War, I......more

Goodreads review by Zoe

Heartwrenching, beautiful, and bittersweet! Meet Me in Bombay is predominantly set in India during the early 1900s and is told from two different perspectives; Maddy, a young woman who finds the love of her life only to lose him to war, and Luke, a young officer who can’t remember his name or where h......more

Goodreads review by Literary

A lush, lovely, and often gut-wrenching historical romance about two lovers torn apart by WWI. Set in Bombay (so exotic) and the terrible trenches on the front, this sumptuous story kept me rapt throughout. So compelling is the love between Luke and Maddy that when he disappears after being injured,......more