Far to Seek: A Romance of England and India

Roy Sinclair is a boy caught between two empires. The son of an English baronet and a Rajput noblewoman, he spends his days in the luminous landscapes of colonial India, listening to his mother's stories and dreaming of adventures with his companion Tara. But summer cannot last forever. Each year brings new pressures: the weight of British expectations, the subtle cruelties of society that sees his mixed heritage as contamination rather than bridge. Maud Diver, writing from deep familiarity with Anglo-Indian life, crafts a tender portrait of a child's interior world while quietly exposing the fractures beneath colonial certainties. This is a novel about the cost of belonging fully to nowhere, and the quiet heroism required to forge an identity from divided inheritance. The romance of the title refers not merely to love between individuals, but to the impossible longing to reconcile worlds that empire has made antagonistic. For readers drawn to the hidden histories of colonial complicity and the children who paid its personal price.