Author(s): Sharon Maas

Fiction

Another wonderful, exotic saga from the author of Of Marriageable Age and Peacocks Dancing.

Jyothi is growing up on the streets of Bombay when she is rescued by an affluent Western couple, their contribution to the starving of India. But she soon finds adapting to the orderly middle-class English way of life, to school, and to rules and regulations hard. She feels a misfit.

But then, by chance, it is discovered that she has a rare musical talent. Words might never be easy but music flows from her. The delicate girl, with her extraordinary looks and her unique talent, takes the world by storm. And the rootless Indian waif, Jyothi, becomes the international superstar, Jade.

But she