Women of the Raj

5 best books like Women of the Raj (Margaret MacMillan): Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, Making Toast, When in French: Love in a Second Language, Summer at Tiffany, A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

Author	Lucy Mangan
ISBN	0224098853

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.

She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...

Making Toast

Author

Roger Rosenblatt

When his daughter, Amy-a gifted doctor, mother, and wife-collapsed and died from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, left their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren, six-year-old Jessica,...

When in French: Love in a Second Language

Author	Lauren Collins
ISBN	1594206449

A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone...

Summer at Tiffany

Author	Marjorie Hart
ISBN	0061189529

Do you remember the best summer of your life?

New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find...

A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur

Author	Gayatri Devi
ISBN	8171673074

She is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants and she shot her first panther when she was twelve. She has appeared on the lists of the world's most beautiful women. Gayatri Devi describes her carefree...