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Description for The India House
Paperback. Set in 1956, this is the story of three women: Mrs Covington, her widowed daughter Evelyn, and her grand-daughter eighteen-year-old Julia. She has decided that the girl is to be kept in a state of 'innocence'. But with the arrival of her son Roland, and her eighteen-year-old grandson, James, their fragile paradise is about to be changed forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
The locals call it 'The India House'. But they have little to do with the three women who live there: grandmother, mother and daughter.
Old Mrs Covington dreams of India and the days of the Raj. Her daughter Evelyn watches obsessively over eighteen-year-old Julia. Julia's tutor, Mr Henry, has been instructed to keep her in a state of 'innocence'. Every day he censors the newspaper and reports a sanitised version to the family.
But it is 1956 and Britain is changing. Mrs Covington may shut out the modern world, but she cannot prevent the arrival of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099469612
SKU
KAC0001417
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About William Palmer
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' ... Read more
Reviews for The India House
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more