{"id":2261,"date":"2014-02-22T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:48:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:48:54","slug":"under-the-jeweled-sky-by-alison-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Under the Jeweled Sky by Alison McQueen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the only child of a doctor and his unhappy wife, Sophie Schofield is a lonely child trying to cope with her father’s absence during World War II and her mother’s cold hatred.\u00a0 When her father is demobilized, the family gets a chance to move to India.\u00a0 Sophie and her father hope that a new environment will improve their lives and brighten their hopes for the future. \u00a0In the Maharaja’s lush palace, Sophie becomes part of a world she could only imagine, but she remains lonely until a chance meeting with young Jagaan Ramakrishnan, the son of one of the king’s bearers.\u00a0 Under the backdrop of India’s independence and partition, the two become fast friends,\u00a0but Sophie knows that if her parents learn of\u00a0the growing closeness of these two young people from very different worlds, tragedy will follow.<\/p>\n

This is a beautiful story of two very different worlds that collide with devastating consequences.\u00a0 When, as an adult, Sophie returns to India, she finds it difficult to fit into the constricted world of her husband’s colleagues and learns too late that Jag has not forgotten her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the only child of a doctor and his unhappy wife, Sophie Schofield is a lonely child trying to cope with her father’s absence during World War II and her mother’s cold hatred.\u00a0 When her father is demobilized, the family gets a chance to move to India.\u00a0 Sophie and her father hope that a new … Continue reading Under the Jeweled Sky by Alison McQueen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}