An Indian Attachment: An Englishwoman's Unforgettable Two-Year Encounter with Indian Village Life Among the Sikhs - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688057187 ISBN 13: 9780688057183

Synopsis

The author, from a privileged, sophisticated English background, recounts her love affair with a young Indian Sikh and their two years together in India's rural backwaters

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Review

A remarkable achievement: beautifully written, sympathetic without being starry-eyed...lots of real wisdom and sensitivity and delicious quiet humour. -- Dervla Murphy, The Times Literary Supplement

A remarkable book...a traveller's tale, a love story, and above all, a brilliant exposé of village India -- John Keay, The Sunday Telegraph

An Indian Attachment is harder to put down than any thriller. -- John Mellors, London Magazine

She brings the beauties of India (and its squalors) vividly to life, with great love. -- Philippa Toomey, The Tablet

Travel writing will never be the same again. -- Anne de Courcy, The Evening Standard

About the Author

Sarah Lloyd was born in London in 1947 and educated at North London Collegiate School. Afterwards she trained as a landscape architect. At the age of 25, having won a British Council scholarship to Brazil, she began the first of her many journeys abroad. Since then travelling has been a compulsion, and she never spent more than a year in one place until 1982 when she bought a house in Staffordshire. In 1987 she published her second book Chinese Characters, a travelogue based on eight months in China. since then she has practised both as a landscape architect and a landscape photographer.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688057187
• ISBN 13: 9780688057183
• Binding: Paperback