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The locals call it 'The India House'. But they have little to do with the three women who live there: grandmother, mother and daughter. Upstairs, old Mrs Covington dreams of India and the days of the Raj. Her widowed daughter Evelyn watches obsessively over eighteen-year-old Julia. She has decided that the girl is to be kept in a state of 'innocence'. The tutor, Mr Henry, is allowed to teach only a bizarre mixture of mythology, history, the Romantic Poets, arithmetic, French, and the perils of socialism. His second duty is to fillet the news in the Times each day and report a sanitised version to the family. As little as possible of the modern world must intrude...But it is 1956. India has been lost for a decade; the rest of the Empire is just about holding together. Britain is about to face the great misadventure of Suez. Mrs Covington may try to avoid the modern world, but she cannot prevent the arrival of two men, her son Roland, and her eighteen-year-old grandson, James. The fragile paradise the women have constructed is about to be changed forever. In this blackly comic novel the past is richly evoked, but its message of colonial ambition and disaster and of love and corruption are both moving and timely.
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"A blackly, bleakly comic novel... An enjoyable, original fable" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Casual-seeming but frighteningly perceptive. Palmer is a master of sly, deadpan narration. Not a word or detail seems misplaced" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Wry and vivid, this novel is a little gem" (Good Book Guide)
"Caustically comic" (Daily Mail)
"An absorbing symphonic novel. A delightful, enjoyable tale. William Palmer is a master craftsman" (Literary Review)
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"Casual-seeming but frighteningly perceptive. Palmer is a master of sly, deadpan narration. Not a word or detail seems misplaced" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Wry and vivid, this novel is a little gem" (Good Book Guide)
"Caustically comic" (Daily Mail)
"An absorbing symphonic novel. A delightful, enjoyable tale. William Palmer is a master craftsman" (Literary Review)
A short, near-perfect novel of extraordinary richness and resonances
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1843959275
- ISBN 13 9781843959274
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages344
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ISBN 10: 1843959275
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