Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes: A Novel (Jana Bibi Adventures)
by:
Betsy Woodman (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B007XSN6AI
Publish date: July 17th 2012
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I don't know how to describe this book. I liked it, but it was one that had to grow on me as I read. I was not instantly smitten. The characters were colorful, but the things happening to them never seemed to truly challenge them, and difficulties were solved easily, almost unbelievably so, actual...
Rating: 3* of five The Book Description: Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family.Janet Laird's life changed the day she inherited her grandfather's house in a faraway Indian hill station. Ign...
Jana Bibi impulsively heads off to a new life in India with her parrot, Mr. Ganguly, and her housekeeper, Mary, to take up residence in an old home left her in her grandfather’s will.Of course, as you might hope, India is a charming place, and Jana and her companions quickly make new friends in the ...
Janet MacPherson Laird, aka Jana Bibi, is Scottish in heritage, but she's lived in India for most of her 58 years and it's where she most likes to be, so she's very pleased when she learns she's inherited her Grandfather's Jolly Grant House estate in a small village in Uttar Pradesh. There's trouble...