Book description
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 her son
Roland, and her handsome grandson, James. The fragile paradise the
women have constructed is about to be changed forever.
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/
