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Literary Fiction · WarmAn elderly British couple stay on in India long after Independence
Staying On
by Paul Scott
1977258 pagesEasy readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 1977
A British couple left behind in India after the Raj
After Indian Independence, Tusker and Lucy Smalley choose to stay in Pankot, a hill station in India. As they grow old, they deal with money worries, a new landlord and their own long marriage. It is a coda to Scott's Raj Quartet, and it was adapted by Granada Television in 1980.
More about this book
Who
Tusker and Lucy Smalley, a retired colonel and his wife.
World
Pankot, an Indian hill town, after Independence.
What makes it different
It is a quiet, human-scale epilogue to the Raj Quartet.
Feel
Gentle and tragicomic.
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