Free-spirited Lucy joins her aunt and uncle in their Mauritian plantation home, where they hope to find her a husband. Lucy doesn’t relish the idea of ‘being settled’ and falls for Don Lambodar, an interpreter for an exiled Ceylonese Prince. Although flowery in style, this lush atmospheric romance plays out against an interesting and dramatic early 19th century backdrop of colonialism and slavery. A Pride and Prejudice in the tropics perhaps?
