The India House

Informationen zum Autor William Palmer is the author of five novels, The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne and The India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other journals. He lives in south-west London. http://www.williampalmer.info/ Klappentext The locals call it 'The India House'. Old Mrs Covington dreams of India and the days of the Raj. Mrs Covington may shut out the modern world, but she cannot prevent the arrival of her son Roland, and her handsome grandson, James. The fragile paradise the women have constructed is about to be changed forever. Zusammenfassung The locals call it 'The India House'. Old Mrs Covington dreams of India and the days of the Raj. Mrs Covington may shut out the modern world, but she cannot prevent the arrival of her son Roland, and her handsome grandson, James. The fragile paradise the women have constructed is about to be changed forever.

Product details

• Authors: William Palmer
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.04.2006
• EAN: 9780099469612
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946961-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary