Nayana Currimbhoy
A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime,In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scandal that disgraced her Brahmin family, Charu finds herself teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls in a boarding school still run like an outpost of the British Empire. In this small, foreign universe, Charu is drawn to the charismatic teacher Moira Prince, who introduces her to pot-smoking hippies, rock â€˜n' roll, and freedoms she never knew existed.,Then one monsoon night, a body is found at the bottom of a cliff, and the ordered worlds of school and town are thrown into chaos. When Charu is implicated in the murderâ€”a case three intrepid schoolgirls take it upon themselves to solveâ€”Charu's real education begins. A love story and a murder mystery, ,Miss Timmins' School for Girls, is, ultimately, a coming-of-age tale set against the turbulence of the 1970s as it played out in one small corner of India.
Mystery,Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Cultural,India,LGBT,Historical,GLBT,Queer,School Stories,Boarding School,Young Adult,Coming Of Age,Adult Fiction
Miss Timmins' School for Girls