<p>Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. </p><p>Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night - a disgrace to British India. All hopes are on beautiful Maisy to restore their good fortune.</p><p>But Maisy's more at home in the city's forbidden alleyways, eating bazaar food and speaking Bengali with Pushpa, than dancing in glittering ballrooms with potential husbands.</p><p>Then one day Maisy's tutor falls ill. His son stands in. Poetic, handsome and ambitious for an independent India, Sunil Banerjee promises Maisy the world.</p><p>So begins a love affair that will cast her future, for better and for worse. Just as the Second World War strikes and the empire begins to crumble...</p><p><i>This is the other side of British India. A dizzying, scandalous, dangerous world, where race, class and gender divide and rule.</i></p>