This was a quite good Bildungsroman, we follow Drusilla and her life from childhood until she’s an adult and with Drusilla comes the Framling family. I’ve read this book last year, but there were things that really stuck with me and how Lavinia and Fabian treated her as she belonged to them. It was truly sad to see that Drusilla’s life never belonged to her; she always gravitated toward that family, yet they mostly failed to see her as an equal until the very end. Especially since Lavinia never seems to allow Drusilla to become other than her best friend by force and not allowing her to have her own life.

Drusilla also falls within the Jane Eyre curse - she’s plain but somehow attracts the attention of men who find her charming, but she never really stops feeling the pull that Fabian has towards her. Because the story uses a first-person perspective, we only understand Fabian’s feelings for Drusilla once she begins to consider him in that light. Although he finds their childhood memories something too fond of, it is still weird how he finds it charming the fact that he kidnapped her a lot when they were young.

The novel is 36 years old now, and it is clear it is not a romance like we have currently in our contemporary fiction, but I still miss sometimes reading these type of books and “The Indian Fan” did have a lot of Eyre’s vibe to it.

Thanks for providing a review copy, I was not able to read this one. So I will not be leaving a review on social media at this time.