Enchanted Evening: Being the Third Part of 'Share of Summer', Her Autobiography - Hardcover

Kaye, M M

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9780670886838: Enchanted Evening: Being the Third Part of 'Share of Summer', Her Autobiography

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ISBN 10: 0670886831 ISBN 13: 9780670886838

Publisher: Viking, 1999

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This is the third volume of M M Kaye's enchanting autobiography. In THE SUN IN THE MORNING, Kaye recounted her first eighteen years in India and England and described with brilliant and vivid detail her love affair with India. In GOLDEN AFTERNOON,Mollie was plunged into the glories of the Delhi Season on her return from an English boarding-school. Here in ENCHANTED EVENING, we see Mollie torn away from her beloved India to set up home in China where she discovers the giddy pleasure ofindependence, gained through the success of her painting. This volume is unmistakably M M Kaye with as romantic an ending in the cool of the Indian hills as the young and idealistic Kaye herself could ever have wished.

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About the Author:

M. M. Kaye (1908-2004) was born and grew up in Simla, India. Her grandfather, father, brother and husband all served the Raj. M. M. Kaye won worldwide fame for The Far Pavilions, which became a best-seller on publication in 1978.
She also wrote a series of detective novels, including Death in Kashmir and Death in Zanzibar, and an autobiography, published in three volumes, collectively entitled Share of Summer: The Sun in the Morning, Golden Afternoon, and Enchanted Evening.

Synopsis:

In this third volume of Kaye's autobiography of life growing up in India, we see Molly torn away form her beloved India to set up home in China where she discovers the giddy pleasure of independence gained through the success of her painting.

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