One Dead for Every Kilometre Home

Fergus O'Connell

Aug 2016 · Andrews UK Limited

About this eBook

The story of the Indian soldiers who fought for Britain in WWI 1914. Ranveer, the eldest son of a wealthy Indian family, joins the British Indian Army and is sent to fight on the Western Front. Wounded and in hospital, he falls in love with Eve, an Englishwoman. But the conventions of the time mean they will never find a home in England. They travel to India but there it is no better and Ranveer gets drawn into the struggle for Indian independence. Now he must choose between family and his country on the one hand and the woman he loves on the other.

About the author

The Sunday Business Post has described Fergus O’Connell www.fergusoconnell.com as having ‘more strings to his bow than a Stradivarius’. His 2002 novel, Call The Swallow, was described by The Irish Times as ‘better than Schindler’s Ark’ [itself a Booker Prize winner]. Call The Swallow was short listed for the 2002 Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Prize and nominated for the Hughes & Hughes / Sunday Independent Novel of the Year. His sixth novel is The Paradise Ghetto [Accent Press, 2016]; he is now working on its successor. Two of his novels have been optioned as films. Fergus has two children and currently lives just outside Florence in Italy. Prior to this, Fergus lived in France for seven years. His French is disimproving rapidly and his Italian is not coming on at the same rate.