Heat And Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala #foliosociety and the River Thames all

and the River Thames all the way from Buckingham palace to the Tower of London

though they cannot see each other

ISBN: 9780571379248 | Extent: 400 pages

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

The Every blends satire and terror

Heat And Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala #foliosociety and the River Thames allThe beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story,