Writing on Skin - Couverture souple

Banerji, Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552995355 ISBN 13 : 9780552995351

Editeur : Black Swan, 1994

Synopsis

When Hermione, eccentric, 70 and returned from India, encountered Slug street-painting on the pavement, she was attracted by his honesty. By the author of "Cobwalking", "The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel", "The Tea-Planter's Daughter", "Shining Agnes" and "Absolute Hush".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When Hermione - eccentric, seventy and returned from India to a ’safe’ life in the Home Counties - encounters Slug street-painting on the pavement, she employs him as assistant gardener. Slug, who has the motto ’ Never Grow Old’ tattooed across his head, will soon sort out Gerald, the pin-striped head gardener, soften his ruthless marshalling of her plants and introduce a more effusive atmosphere to her estate.

But when Hugh, Hermione’s huge husband, dies, Slug’s skinhead cronies begin to threaten her peace, and Hermione retreats to the chaos of India, chasing the memories of her previous life. What happened to the young Indian with whom she fell passionately in love when she was nineteen, and who had insisted that she marry the more ’ suitable’ Hugh? Can she recreate the dream of over fifty years ago?

Writing on Skin is blackly comic in its humour and sweeping in its imaginative scope.

Biographie de l'auteur

The daughter of a novelist, Sara Banerji spent part of her childhood in the African bush. She married an Oxford under­graduate from India and they spent the first seventeen years of their married life in the South Indian Hills tea planting and bring­ing up three daughters. During that time Sara rode as a jockey on the flat and held exhibitions of her paintings in Madras and Delhi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552995355
• ISBN 13: 9780552995351
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible