Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British India in the time between 1912 and 1914, just before WWI.
Chapters
1 Chapter 1: Blinds Down 20 min 2 Chapter 2: What Hannah Said 15 min 3 Chapter 3: The Closed House 8 min 4 Chapter 4: Kicks and Halfpence 31 min 5 Chapter 5: Clouds 18 min 6 Chapter 6: An Empty Offer 21 min 7 Chapter 7: ''The Monster'' 10 min 8 Chapter 8: Bound for Burma 14 min 9 Chapter 9: The ''Blankshire'' 15 min 10 Chapter 10: The Land of Promise 21 min 11 Chapter 11: A Burmese Hostess 23 min 12 Chapter 12: East And West 11 min 13 Chapter 13: ''Keep an Eye Upon Her'' 13 min 14 Chapter 14: The Mantle of Fernanda 34 min 15 Chapter 15: The Chummery 21 min 16 Chapter 16: Mr. And Mrs. Abel Salter 12 min 17 Chapter 17: At the Play 26 min 18 Chapter 18: The Chinese Shop 12 min 19 Chapter 19: Chaff 10 min 20 Chapter 20: The Pongye 16 min 21 Chapter 21: The Cocaine Den 13 min 22 Chapter 22: The Approaching Dread 14 min 23 Chapter 23: Mystery and Suspicion 12 min 24 Chapter 24: Sentence of Death 22 min 25 Chapter 25: The Late Richard Roscoe 6 min 26 Chapter 26: Fitzgerald Imparts Information 12 min 27 Chapter 27: A Rope Trick 9 min 28 Chapter 28: Ma Chit 7 min 29 Chapter 29: Mung Baw 15 min 30 Chapter 30: Enlightenment 17 min 31 Chapter 31: Seeing Is Believing 8 min 32 Chapter 32: On Duty 16 min 33 Chapter 33: Sophy 20 min 34 Chapter 34: All Is Over 8 min 35 Chapter 35: Mung Baw Lies Low 20 min 36 Chapter 36: The Bombshell 24 min 37 Chapter 37: The Tug of War 17 min 38 Chapter 38: Sergeant-Major Ryan 12 min
