Raj love story wins romantic novel of the year award
Alison Flood in guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 February 2009

'Lots of different kinds of love' ... Julia Gregson (pic right)

A story about three young women travelling to India in the last days of the British Raj has beaten bestselling chick lit author Cecelia Ahern's latest book to be named Romantic novel of the year.

Julia Gregson was presented with the prize for her second novel, East of the Sun, at the Romantic Novelists' Association's awards lunch in Kensington today. The book tells the story of Rose, going to India to marry a man she hardly knows, her bridesmaid Victoria who is determined to find a husband, and their chaperone Viva, who wants to rediscover the India of her childhood. Gregson, who comes from Monmouthshire, spent time in India as a foreign correspondent.

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