A Shimla Affair: Historical Fiction Set in 1940 Shimla During the British Raj | By the Bestselling Author of Lallan Sweets
The year is 1940, and Shimla pulses with colonial grandeur and subterranean danger. Nalini Mistry chafes against the confines of her restricted existence, yearning for something beyond domesticity's narrow confines. Together with her sisters Noor and Afreen, Nalini manages the Royal Hotel Shimla, a lavish haven for Britain's elite. Life shifts dramatically when revolutionaries approach them with a shocking request: become accomplices to a calculated killing during the hotel's glittering Summer Jubilee Ball. The stakes couldn't be higher. Complicating matters further is Nalini's growing attraction to Charles Nayler, a British officer whose understanding of her runs deeper than anyone else's ever has. As the fateful evening draws closer, the three women find themselves entangled in a maze of concealed motives, crumbling loyalties, and gut-wrenching dilemmas. Appearances deceive at every turn. What begins as a single night of deception unravels into something far more consequential. Each choice they make may alter India's very future—and cost them everything they hold dear. This novel captures three remarkable women navigating love, obligation, and vengeance whilst wrestling with a nation's destiny. It's a story where moral certainty collapses, where loyalty becomes weaponised, and where one ballroom holds the power to reshape history.
- Author: Srishti Chaudhary
- Publisher: Penguin eBury Press
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0143473756
- Pages: 312 pages