Format: A5

Number of pages: 344

In England it was once customary for young people who had little chance of success in their own country to seek their fortune in the colonies. And so, for example, India became the target of young men who hoped to get rich on tea plantations in Darjeeling, or brides without a dowry who wanted to find a husband in an unknown environment. Similarly, Octavia, the heroine of our story, is one day put on a ship by selfish relatives to get rid of her - but the situation then unfolds quite differently than they imagined. Experiences from an exotic environment, unexpected events and London, where she will soon return, gradually transform an inexperienced girl into a bright and unusually purposeful and independent young woman for her time, whose fate readers will follow with growing sympathy