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Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas
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Of Marriageable Age

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Narrator Anne Flosnik

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Length 18 hours 57 minutes
Language English
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A spellbinding story of forbidden love. Three continents, three decades, three very disparate lives:

Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in Madras. But the traditional customs of her Brahmin family clash against English upper-class prejudice, threatening her love for the privileged son of the house.

Nataraj, raised as the son of an idealistic doctor in rural South India, finds life in London heady, with girls and grass easily available . . . until he is summoned back home to face raw reality.

Saroj, her fire hidden by outward reserve, comes of age in Guyana, South America. When her strict, orthodox Hindu father goes one step too far, she finally rebels against him and even against her gentle, apparently docile Ma.

But Ma harbors a deep secret, one that binds these three disparate lives and hurtles them toward a truth that could destroy their world.

Sharon Maas is a novelist whose books include The Speech of Angels, Peacocks Dancing, and The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q. She also works as a social worker in a hospital in South Germany. Born in Guyana and educated in England, Sharon currently lives and works in Germany.

Anne Flosnik is an accomplished, multi-award-winning British actress, with lead credits for stage, television, commercials, industrials, voice-overs, and audiobooks. Anne has garnered three AudioFile Earphones Awards, an ALA Award, and four Audie Award nominations. Her narration of Little Bee by Chris Cleave was chosen as one of the Best Audiobooks of the Year 2009 by AudioFile magazine and one of the Top 40 Best Audiobooks of 2009 by Library Journal.

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"A vast canvas of memorable characters across a kaleidoscope of cultures . . . Her epic story feels like an authentic reflection of a world full of sadness, joy and surprise." ---The Observer Expand reviews
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