Coupled with this, her family had a long involvement with India and one of her ancestors, Sir John Kaye, wrote a definitive account of the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

The major characters are fictional but there is a good spattering of factual people and events in the narrative which add a modicum of true history to the story.M M Kaye spent most of her childhood and early adulthood in this wonderful sub continent, she had an innate understanding of the peoples and customs. This is a fabulous Indian epic weaving between fact and fiction, dealing with the year prior to and the 1857 Indian Mutiny. What made the experience of listening to Shadow of the Moon the most enjoyable? This is my favourite book.but oh dear!!!! Please choose your readers on the basis of their ability to read aloud, not on who they are. It depends on whether the movie was made by Americans or Brits. If this book were a movie would you go see it? If we have access to the internet to hear words we are not sure how to pronounce, it seems that Tara Ochs would also have that access, at the very least! I am dismayed at the sheer number of mis-pronounced words and place names in the audiobook. How could the performance have been better? I am looking at getting that one in audiobook form, but would not consider it if it were read by Tara Ochs.Īlex Randall. I own The Far Pavilions in book form also. I have Trade Wind also in book and audiobook form. I own a bedraggled first-edition copy of Shadow of the Moon, and was looking forward to hearing it as an audiobook. I grew up reading M.M.Kaye's books, and loved them.

Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye