Three daughters of EvePeri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past and a love Peri had tried desperately to forget. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as an eighteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her

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But when she becomes a Maid of Honour at the Tudor court of Henry VIII

Following the Silk Roads eastwards

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But just when she feels they might have a chance of happiness at last

a beautiful wife

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