Of marriageable age by Sharon Mass

Mass, Sharon. Of marriageable age. London : Harper Collins, 1999

This is a great story of forbidden love – a 1990s Far Pavilions.  The story traces the lives of three people across three decades and three continents.  Savitri, discerning and charming is brought up among the servants of a pre-war English household in India.  Both her family and the English households are torn apart by the racial upheavals and Savitri’s love for the son of the household.

Then there is Nataraj, raised as the son of an idealistic country doctor, finds life in London heady access to girls and money.  This inevitably leads him to drop out of his family circle and medical studies.  However, fate has something else planned for him – he discovers news about his parentage.

Sarojini, outspoken is brought up in Guyana, belonging to a group of rich Indian families who have settled there.  She rebels against her strict parents.  


Sharon Maas was born in Georgetown, Guyana and was eduacted both in Guyana and in the UK .  Her mixed ancestry of African, Amerindian, Dutch and British adds texture to the complexity of themes in her works.  Her other novels include  Peacocks dancing and The speech ofn Angels.

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