Writing on Skin
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.
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1448208459
ISBN13:9781448208456
Release Date:December 2012
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Length:212 Pages
Weight:0.67 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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A woman with two lives, two loves and an odd view
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
To try to categorise this book would do it an injustice. It is romantic and disgusting, exciting and moving. One of those rare books that you can't put down. It is only a shame that it is out of print! May be some one will make it into a movie. A woman outlives her husband, after a life in India retiring to an English suburb. She sees glimpses of modern life and it's associated problems; drugs, theft and suicide. She turns away from her home country and returns to India to find a different life.
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