Books like The bride by Bapsi Sidhwa

A dark, passionate tale set on the West Yorkshire moors, following the tumultuous love and revenge between the Earnshaws, Lintons, and the enigmatic Heathcliff.

Set in north England, Jane Eyre follows an orphaned governess who faces abuse, hardship, and ultimately a complicated love with her employer, Edward Rochester, while contemplating marriage to her austere cousin St. John Rivers.

In 19th‑century rural France, country doctor Charles Bovary marries the ambitious Emma, whose longing for romance and luxury drives her into affairs and reckless spending, spiraling her into ruin and social disgrace.

Set in the 1830s Midlands, George Eliot’s Middlemarch intertwines village life, politics, and the struggles of its characters to explore social reform, gender roles, and community hypocrisy.

Three ambitious women—Erica Valenta, Cindy Prewett, and Melissa John—navigate love and career ambitions, all tied together through the famed Fifth Avenue destination, Goldsmith's Bridal Salon.

Kate Croy, a young American woman in London, schemes to secure a future with the amateur financier Merton Densher by courting the wealthy, ill Milly Theale; her plan highlights ambition, love, and tragedy.

A satirical look at Manhattan’s Park Avenue princesses, who chase tans from a Portofino tanning salon, private jets and ATM‑rich boyfriends, all while flirting with the ever‑elusive fiancé.

In 1886‑Boston satire, a civil war veteran, his feminist cousin, and a newcomer collide over reformist ideals, revealing the era’s social tensions.

A Victorian tale of marital discontent, adultery, and custody battles, examining the social consequences of divorce and the limited rights of women.

Sophie Connell's minister grandfather was due to conduct his 2000th wedding - the last one before he retired - on the first day of the year 2000. Then Bryn Jasper persuaded the happy couple to get married at his Great Barrier Reef resort - in front of the world's press! Sophie was furious! Determined to get the bride and groom to reconsider, she started working undercover at the resort. But when she fell in love with Bryn she suddenly realized that the only millennium wedding she wanted to experience was her own....

A love story between a middle-aged man and a young woman from a partisans' family in London, set against the backdrop of the 1970s, exploring the seductive power of storytelling.

In modern Karachi, a privileged young woman named Ayla recounts the hidden tensions of Pakistan’s upper class—religion, culture, oppression, and poverty—through intimate first‑person prose, exposing a society that defies Western expectations.

An orphaned young woman rises from mistreatment and schooling to become a governess for Mr. Rochester, confronting hardship while pursuing personal dignity and love.

The Wish Maker follows fatherless boy Zaki Shirazi and his cousin Samar Api as they grow up in a politically active Pakistani household, exploring friendship, family, and the challenges of a changing society.

"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance. When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival--a revelatory portrait of the human spirit"--