A stunning new historical children’s novel from Costa Award-winning author of Asha & the Spirit Bird.
Anushka is furious. As princess of an Indian kingdom, she has watched the British East India Company take land and her family’s most divine jewel ? an emerald the size of an apple. So when her father, the Maharaja, decides to visit Queen Victoria at Buckinham Palace, Nush goes too ? determined to bring back the gem that can heal her country. A fabulous new historical direction from Costa-winning and Waterstones-shortlisted author, Jasbinder Bilan.
Themes of colonialism and identity, mixed with an action-packed royal mystery.