FICTION DAVID ROBSON SALUTES A FINE STORYTELLER'STHOUGHTFUL TALE OF THE INDIAN MUTINY

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 11, 2007| Author: DAVID ROBSON | Copyright information

The Mutiny

BY JULIAN RATHBONE

LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 16.99, 447 ppT pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

Monkey poo,' sighs a stalwart of the Raj, hitching up her skirts as she takes her morning constitutional along the Upper Mall in Simla. 'Such a nuisance.' The natives are restless, the Indian Mutiny is just a few years away, but nothing can shake the British ruling class out of their determined triviality. For young Sophie Hardcastle, newly arrived from Englan...

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