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This sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s.

East of the Sun

A powerful love story set against the unstable and exotic cities of Cairo and Istanbul during the height of World War II.

Jasmine Nights

A scopic historical love story about a young woman who joins Florence Nightingale's "band of angels" and learns life's hardest lessons while serving in the Crimean War.

Band of Angels

© Alex Pownall

Julia Gregson
has worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent in the UK, Australia, and the US. Her novel
East of the Sun
was a major bestseller in the UK and won the Romantic Novel of the Year Prize and the Le Prince Maurice Prize there.  Her short stories have been published in collections and magazines and read on the radio. She lives in Monmouthshire, Wales.

ALSO BY JULIA GREGSON

FICTION

Jasmine Nights

Band of Angels

East of the Sun

NONFICTION

Emigrating to Australia
(with Caroline Sutton)

Crossing Borders
(with Alex Pownall)

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ISBN 978-1-4767-2526-0

ISBN 978-1-4767-2530-7 (ebook)