Monarch's Row

From the bestselling author of Broken for You, an exhilarating new novel about a child born into the world of the British Raj and raised largely in seclusion, until an act of violence catapults her into the world—a wartime love triangle, a literary puzzle, and a moving exploration of the power of authorship, for readers of All the Light We Cannot See and A Gentleman in Moscow. Enid Asquith is born in 1901 into a prominent British family living in Bombay; her congenital facial deformity and her mother’s frail health requires the family to abandon their holdings in India and return to their home in Muswell Hill—a suburb of North London. For her first few years, Enid shares a housebound existence with her chronically ill mother and a distant father; however, possessed of a resilient, curious, and imaginative nature, she experiences no sense of deprivation: a voracious reader, she is never without the company of imaginary friends, and on occasion, visits from her much-older sister and brother who are away at boarding school. Soon after the sudden death of her mother, Enid is finally able to undergo reparative surgery, and her world begins to open up.