Thushani Weerasekera

Ayah Thushani Weerasekera

London, 1866. Beautiful, unworldly Jemima is abandoned in a shabby lodging house by her once-trusted English memsahib. From that moment forth, she is driven by one goal: to return home to her humble yet familiar existence in India. But life for Jemima is far from easy and she finds that she must compromise her morals in order to survive the dark underbelly of Victorian London. Will she remain in England as the low-class, native mistress of a high-class white man? Or will the call of the East take her back to her life in India?