By the author of Black Narcissus and The River 'One of our best and
most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher For Emily Pool, India is
a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's
suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and
gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous,
dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in
Emily's family home are papered over, the Pools strive to maintain
an outward impression of respectability, and it is through the
Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit and
attrition. And when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a
confrontation and reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is
quite as it seems . . .
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