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Cochin Fall (The Colonials) Kindle Edition

by Liz Harris (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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From award-winning author, Liz Harris, comes a captivating story of love and betrayal set in Cochin, South India, in the days of the British Raj.

British Cochin, 1934

Returning to her home among the palm trees that line the coast of Cochin, South India, after six years at school in England, Clara Saunders is thrilled to learn that the future mapped out for her by her trader father is the one she would have chosen herself.

It’s a future that will unite her with her childhood sweetheart, George Goddard, the son of a neighbouring trader. It will also cement her friendship with George’s vivacious sister, Lizzie, and bring even closer together the two successful trading companies.

Trader Lewis Mackenzie, an employee of Clara’s father, is both ruthless and ambitious. Keen on seeing an expansion of Saunders & Co, and frustrated by the complacency shown by Henry Saunders, he determines to take matters into his own hands.

One simple misunderstanding gives rise to further misunderstandings, and in the face of potential disaster, the happiness of several people hangs in the balance.

Cochin Fall, an unforgettably powerful story of love and betrayal, is perfect for readers of Santa Montefiore, Ann Bennet, Dinah Jefferies, Kristin Hannah, Fiona Valpy and Rosie Thomas.


What readers are saying about Darjeeling Inheritance by Liz Harris, the first standalone novel in The Colonials.

Liz Harris has successfully transported me to 1930s India in her five-star novel set on a tea plantation in Darjeeling! I’ve read books set in colonial India before, but Harris has a superb gift in making life during the British Raj come to life…This is a fabulous novel that needs to top your list. (Goodreads review)

Darjeeling Inheritance is an entertaining, well-written historical romance, well-rooted in its geographic setting… Recommended for readers who want a well-constructed story set outside Europe or North America. Helen Hollick (Amazon Vine Voice)

An enjoyable read, full of romance, and with enough treachery and intrigue to keep interest throughout. (Historical Novel Society Review)

The dialogue captures the essence of the characters and the vivid description of the landscape foreshadows dangers lurking in the lush landscape. The depth of the story rises above most romances because it pulls no punches. Linnia Tanner (Goodreads review)

It is essentially a love story, but with secrets and betrayals, set in the Darjeeling area of India. The time period of the 1930s is vividly recreated by the author, along with rich descriptions of the tea estates for which the area is famous. T.F. White (Amazon review)

I absolutely loved it and whole heartedly recommend it. Sara (Amazon review)

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Born in London, Liz Harris graduated from university with a Law degree, and then moved to California, where she led a varied life, from waitressing on Sunset Strip to working as secretary to the CEO of a large Japanese trading company.Six years later, she returned to London and completed a degree in English, after which she taught secondary school pupils, first in Berkshire, and then in Cheshire.In addition to the fourteen novels she's had published, she's had several short stories in anthologies and magazines. Liz now lives in Berkshire. An active member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Historical Novel Society, her interests are travel, the theatre, reading and cryptic crosswords. To find out more about Liz, visit her website at: www.lizharrisauthor.com

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09KY2TZ4Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heywood Press
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 837 KB
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  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913687137
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  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ The Colonials
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After graduating in Law in the UK, Liz moved to California where she led a varied life - from cocktail waitressing on Sunset Strip to secretary to the CEO of a large Japanese trading company. Upon returning to England, she completed a degree in English and then taught for a number of years before developing her writing career.

Her debut novel, THE ROAD BACK, was voted Book of the Year 2012 by US Coffee Time & Romance, and in the following year, A BARGAIN STRUCK was shortlisted for the RoNA for Best Romantic Historical. These and THE LOST GIRL, EVIE UNDERCOVER, THE ART OF DECEPTION, the last two being contemporary novels set in Italy, were shortlisted in their respective categories by the Festival of Romantic Fiction. A WESTERN HEART, a novella set in Wyoming 1880, was published digitally and as an audio book.

THE DARK HORIZON introduced readers to The Linford Series, a sweeping saga set between the wars. It was followed by THE FLAME WITHIN and THE LENGTHENING SHADOW. Each of three books can be read as a standalone, and they are now available in a box set, THE LINFORD COLLECTION.

Her most recent novels, DARJEELING INHERITANCE, COCHIN FALL, HANOI SPRING and SIMLA MIST comprise THE COLONIALS. Each is a standalone set in a different location, with different characters, in different years.

EINE ERBSCHAFT IN DARJEELING, the translation into German of DARJEELING INHERITANCE, was published in July 2022, and was followed by LIEBE UND VERRAT IN COCHIN (the German version of COCHIN FALL) in October 2022.

AM TAGESENDE (THE DARK HORIZON) was published in February, 2023, and will be followed later in the year by DIE WIEDERKEHR (THE FLAME WITHIN) and IM DÄMMERLICHT (THE LENGTHENING SHADOW). All of Liz's German translations are by Ingrid Price-Gschlössl.

A second edition of THE ROAD BACK was published in August 2022, and this was followed by the publication in November 2022 of IN A FAR PLACE, which tells the story of one of the characters in THE ROAD BACK, the missionaries' son, Peter Henderson.

Liz's latest series is a trilogy, THREE SISTERS, each of which tells the story of one of the daughters of John Hammond, owner of several haberdashery stores. THE LOOSE THREAD, published in 2024, will be followed in September 2024 by THE

SILKEN KNOT. THE WOVEN LIE will be published early in 2025.

Liz now lives in Windsor, Berkshire. She's a member of The Romantic Novelists’ Association, The Historical Novel Society, and The Society of Authors. She gives talks and workshops at literary festivals and conferences. Her hobbies are theatre, cinema, reading and cryptic crosswords.

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    3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing happens
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2024
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    I have read four of the books about tea plantations.
    Thank you for not swearing and using God’s name.
    The first 75% present is very boring and then something
    happens and you knew what the end will be like.
    I am 78 and have read thousands of books.
    By this time I know what a good book must be.
    Janet Brink - Cape Town, South Africa.
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  • Isabelle D
    5.0 out of 5 stars Historical romance set in India
    Reviewed in France on February 11, 2022
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    This is the second book in a "series" set in colonial India, but a completely independant story (no connection between the characters) so, if you haven't read Darjeeling Inheritance yet, don't let that stop you from diving into Cochin Fall.
    Mostly told in Clara's point of view, the story also includes sections centred on other characters, which provides the reader with more information than the heroine has and made me wish I could warn her when someone misinterpreted her intentions and/or had harmful ones. And even though a romance novel is supposed to end happily, I spent a long time wondering if Clara could end up with "the right person", or if I would have doubts about who that should be (I must say the author is really good at giving me such doubts, as it happened before). All that means I felt very involved in the story and found the book hard to put down.
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  • CharlyB
    5.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable love story set in a fascinating and exotic setting.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2022
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    Cochin Fall is an excellently researched novel that brings British Cochin in the 1930s vividly to life. Detailed descriptions of the sights, sounds and smells are so beautifully written that the reader can easily lose themselves in the world of the British Raj.

    Cochin Fall is an evocative reminder of what it feels like to be eighteen again and deeply, madly, passionately in love. Clara and her childhood friend, George, pledged to marry when they were only eleven and twelve years old, before they were sent to England to be schooled. When they finally meet again in Cochin seven years later, they discover their feelings for each other have only grown stronger. Their two families, both traders with successful businesses, are delighted that they will be united by the young couples’ marriage. Clara’s parents insist that they must wait for six months to ensure that they have time to get to know each other before they marry.

    Clara’s friend, Lizzie, is George’s sister and her parents intend her to make an advantageous marriage to a man she hasn’t yet met. Lizzie, however, has different ideas and becomes infatuated by handsome, raffish Lewis Mackenzie, employed by Clara’s father. She knows such an alliance will not please her parents.

    The author perfectly captured the restrictive social norms for young women at this time. Clara and Lizzie are bound together by their desperate scheming to escape their chaperones and spend time alone with the objects of their passion. Ultimately, this has dramatic repercussions not only for the two girls but for their families, too.

    Cochin Fall is an enjoyable love story is with a surprising twist at the end, set against a fascinating and exotic historical setting.
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  • j. s.
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Perfect antidote to Celebrity Cullture
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2022
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    Cochin Fall is an elegantly written love story with some surprising twists and turns in the plot. The lush and exotic landscape of this area of India is subtly conveyed. The author never falls into the trap of sounding like a holiday brochure. The characters are people who - with a couple of exceptions- you would like to spend time with. They know how to behave. It is a pleasure to be in their homes where coffee is delivered by soft footed servants.
    The book is the perfect antidote to celebrity culture and its raucous peroxide blondes with black eyebrows.
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  • Boingboing
    3.0 out of 5 stars All rather obvious
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2022
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    Books about Empire-era India make up a popular sub-genre of historic fiction. Most are quite lightweight romances with rather obvious plots. Cochin Fall is such a book. It's a light, fluffy distraction but not something you should expect to remember a couple of weeks later.

    Everything that happens is well sign-posted in advance. Everything is very obvious. Good looking young bucks, and conniving lower-class employees compete with solid but dependable gentleman for the hand of young Clara, back from school in England and ready to be married off for the most commercial advantage.

    There are tons of these books set in the Himalaya and I had to keep reminding myself that this one was set in Kerala. Unfortunately, the lack of depth or insight about Kerala suggested that the setting was probably derived from a half-hour travel documentary. It's all Chinese fishing nets and rice barges. Local people are barely there in this story unless you want a tireless brown fellow with a string tied to his toe to pull the punka are a liveried footman to serve a Gimlet.
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  • CAROL MCGRATH
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Tale from the Raj
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2022
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    Cochin Fall is set in British Cochin, a small enclosure in the Indian Sate of Kerala. It takes place during the 1930s when not only were there successful British spice trading companies in the area but opium trafficking operated illicitly as well. Both trade and opium enter this story.
    Clara Saunders returns from school in England, a young woman, very beautiful and intelligent, aged circa eighteen, full of excitement to be back in India with her successful trader family, hoping now to become engaged to George Goddard, her childhood sweetheart. He is from another spice trading family, The Goddards, thus uniting the two families as Clara will ,in time ,inherit her family’s business. Clara is befriended by Lizzie, George’s sister, also returned from school in England. This is an era when the daughters of the Raj were chaperoned and marriages were arranged by families, as, indeed poor Lizzie’s is to be and to a man whom she has never met.

    Lizzie falls for ambitious , handsome but edgy Lewis very early in the novel and she tries to manipulate Clara into arranging meetings between herself and the object of her desire. Unfortunately for her Lewis has other somewhat devious plans. Lewis works for Saunders and Company, for Clara’s family. No spoilers but it’s obvious early on he is not the charming man Lizzie thinks he is.

    This is one of the best plotted intricate novels I have read this year so far. It is also a story full of gorgeous atmospheric descriptions of Cochin and it contains intriguing characterisation. The personalities vividly leap from its pages and I appreciated that they are characters who change as the narrative proceeds towards its surprising conclusion. Naturally, I loved Clara and felt empathy for Lizzie. Cochin Fall is an excellently researched novel that grips a reader from its first chapter until the delightfully satisfying ending with lots of jeopardy in between. I leave you with a teaser- ‘you say you love me, but does a man who truly loves a woman believe the worst of that woman without question. And does a man in love bring disgrace to not only the woman he loves , but to her family too?’
    This, after all, is the Raj and the novel is true to its mores. Highly recommended.
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