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Imelda Connor was a classic Irish lass a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she thought her life was mapped out. Here she would live the enchanted life with the perfect husband, and devote herself to her animals and her family. But life doesn t always go according to plan. And Imelda s life is turned upside-down when she moves to England and happens to meet a dashing, rakish Bengali man Shu Bose. Shu, whose knowledge of Ireland stops at James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, is captivated by her natural beauty and vivacious charm and they embark on a whirlwind romance. At the tender age of eighteen, in the spring of 1932, Imelda boards a ship bound for Calcutta and a very different life to one she could ever have imagined. "From Cork to Calcutta" reads like a novel, transporting the reader back to pre-Independence India, to London between the wars, and to the genteel life of bhadralok Bengali high society. It is also an intimate and affectionate account of the author s parents Imelda and Shu and their unconventional love-story across class, nationality and cultural boundaries. "
About the author
Milty Bose is a writer living in Orlando.
