Before the Rains by Dinah Jefferies

A photographer’s ambition meets forbidden love in princely India

Very Good Condition - Ex-library, cancelled spine markings and label traces. Jacket/film scuffed and creased, edges/corners worn.

In 1930, widowed photojournalist Eliza travels to a princely state in Rajputana to photograph its royal family. Determined to establish her career, she expects the assignment to give her work a new direction, but her meeting with the prince’s younger brother Jay opens possibilities she had not anticipated. Their shared concern for local people draws them closer, while their different backgrounds reveal tensions surrounding privilege, poverty, and British rule. Family expectations and social boundaries place obstacles before a relationship neither can dismiss easily. Dinah Jefferies brings atmosphere and historical conflict to a romantic novel about ambition and difficult choices. Before the Rains follows two people deciding whether they can pursue what matters to them when their world expects something else.