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The Widows of Malabar Hill
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay!
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen is going through the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on if they forfeit what their husband left them? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X - meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah - in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian?
Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts about the will were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.
Inspired in part by a real woman who made history by becoming India's first female lawyer, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth, Perveen Mistry.
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- Dewdropdeb
- 25-04-22
Great story!
wonderful story and setting. The narration was awful though. The whole tone was this sickly sweet curious thing that just didn't work and made Perveen seem weak and childish. The American accent just didn't work either. And when she tried to do the Scottish accent I almost cried. Leave it alone if you can't do it. Describing him as Scottish is enough.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-11-23
Brilliant read!
Excellent book! I loved it. It was lovely to see how life was in 1920s in India especially for women
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- Anonymous User
- 09-05-23
Fantastic women strength and progress oriented story
The flow of the story is amazing. The myth of love marriages before studies and everything else is also broken. Recovering from one bad incident of life rather than giving up , that spirit is amazingly told. Keeps you totally immersed and is difficult to take breaks.
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- Prakash Family Account
- 02-11-22
Poor narration
The narrators voice and accent is so off putting! Could you not have found some Indian actors/narrators to make it sound authentic. I couldn’t even make it to 30 secs which is a shame because the book probably is not half bad! I now have to buy this again on kindle because I can’t sit through this!
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- Lily Proctor
- 27-05-21
Good book, took me a few days to finish
It was a really good book, the law talk confused me slightly. But eventually it made sense.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-01-21
Delightful Listen!
could not stop once I started! perfect mix of mystery and Romance set in an era of Beautiful Bombay
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- alastairl39
- 07-01-20
Perveen Mistry
An interesting historical fiction story of early 20th century big city Indian life and culture from the perspective of a young female professional. The narrator seems very well suited to this text. Will look out for more books in this series.
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- Sally Ann Cook
- 26-03-24
Excellent,entertaining mystery.
The strong female characters especially Parveen. A feisty Indian solicitor,educated at Oxford university where she took her knowledge of rights for women back to her practice in Bombay, Thoroughly enjoyable.
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- ART
- 22-03-24
The easy way the Indians interacted with the brits………
This seemed unrealistic for the time as the Brits liked to keep everyone else in their place at all times.. . in my colonial experience. The story was very interesting.
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- Bridget Thompson
- 24-01-24
Great story!
The narration style was irritating but this hardly detracted from the engaging story once I got used it
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