Staying On
  • Published: 4 January 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099443193
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

Staying On

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4 Jan 2002
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From the author of the Raj Quartet - dramatised for Radio Four The winner of the Booker Prize 'A rich and joyful book' - Sunday Times

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.

Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair.
  • Published: 4 January 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099443193
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Paul Scott

Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy The Raj Quartet. His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977.

Also by Paul Scott

The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence & A Division of the Spoils
My Secret Garden Shed
The Raj Quartet - Vol 2
The Raj Quartet - Vol 1
The Jewel In The Crown
The Towers Of Silence
The Day Of The Scorpion
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Praise for Staying On

Staying On covers only a few months but it carries the emotional impact of a lifetime, even a civilisation

Philip Larkin

Certainly his funniest and, I think, his best. it is a first-class book and deserves to be remembered for a long time

Evening Standard

One of the most cherished books of the last quarter-century. It is good to re-read it for its humour and pathos as well as its wonderful description of the legacy of the Raj

Sunday Telegraph
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