Dance with Fireflies

By Jane Gill

Phyllis, an Anglo-Indian memsahib marries a British soldier. As his posting comes to an end, she gives up her privileged life in India where she ran a restaurant, in a fashionable hill station called Nainital, and embarks on a voyage to the motherland. The solar topee wearing 'foreigner' is not well received by his family. As WW2 takes hold and her husband's regiment is posted away, she is left to defend herself from her cold in-laws. She arrives home one day to discover her baby missing, snatched by her childless sister-in-law. Phyllis is treated with contempt as she clings to the remnants of her marriage, despite her scheming mother-in-law and the poisonous correspondence she writes to her son. Dance with Fireflies is written with empathy, as the two disparate worlds of the crumbling Raj and the austerity of WW2 contrast in a mix of privilege, bigotry and austerity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517350700
• ISBN13: 9781517350703
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"