"Under The Jewelled Sky" is a poignant tale of a woman's journey towards redemption and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of post-Partition India, Alison McQueen's novel explores the pain and heartbreak of a forbidden love that shook Sophie Schofield's life. Through her journey, the reader is transported to a bygone era of glittering ex-pat society and mesmerizing maharaja's palaces. McQueen's prose is heartwarming, evoking a sense of nostalgia and longing for a time and place that has been lost forever. Highly recommended for readers who enjoy historical fiction and character-driven narratives.

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London 1957. In a bid to erase her past and build the family she yearns for, Sophie Schofield accepts a wedding proposal from ambitious British diplomat, Lucien Grainger. When he is posted to New Delhi, into the glittering circle of ex-pat high society, old wounds begin to break open as she is confronted with the memory of her first, forbidden love and its devastating consequences.The suffocating conformity of diplomatic life soon closes in on her. This is not the India she fell in love with ten years before when her father was a maharaja’s physician, the India of tigers and scorpions and palaces afloat on shimmering lakes; the India that ripped out her heart as Partition tore the country in two, separating her from her one true love. The past haunts her still, the guilt of her actions, the destruction it wreaked upon her fragile parents, and the boy with the tourmaline eyes.Sophie had never meant to come back, yet the moment she stepped onto India’s burning soil as a newlywed wife, she realised her return was inevitable. And so begins the unravelling of an ill-fated marriage, setting in motion a devastating chain of events that will bring her face to face with a past she tried so desperately to forget, and a future she must fight for.A story of love, loss of innocence, and the aftermath of a terrible decision no one knew how to avoid.

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