As the "Kaisar-i-Hind" weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There's Rose, as beautiful as she is naive, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, "East of the Sun" is graced with lavish detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical fiction at its greatest.

硃莉婭·格雷格森，1947年齣生於英國倫敦，是一位擁有豐富的想象力和冒險精神的英國女作傢。著有《水馬》《茉莉之夜》《印度，總有人在那裏等你去尋找》等多部暢銷小說。她的作品總是散發著濃鬱的野性和生命力。

格雷格森的經曆具有傳奇色彩。她在美麗的威爾士長大，從小就夢想成為作傢，渴望旅行和冒險。年少時去澳大利亞內陸做牧場女徒工，後來迴到倫敦，成為著名時裝品牌赫迪雅曼的服裝模特。七十年代，她重返澳大利亞。後來去過越南、印度、美國。在紐約，她不僅是澳大利亞雜誌駐外記者，還為《滾石》雜誌工作。

為瞭創作《印度，總有人在那裏等你去尋找》這部小說，格雷格森兩次前往印度，感受印度的風土人情和神秘文化。