Heat and Dust : A Novel (Paperback)

from jayne_charles

The first chapter of this novel left me confused with its casual reference to a whole sequence of people we had yet to meet. I hurried on, hoping to encounter something I could understand. Later, w...

from labfs39

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1975, Heat and Dust is a short but interesting study in contrasts. It is the story of two women, both British, who find themselves living in unfamiliar India. Olivia i...

from MarysGirl

A quick read, romantic, literary and lyrical. The book is structured around two narratives: Olivia, a bored English colonial wife in India in 1920 who scandalizes the British community by falling i...

from gypsysmom

I listened to this book which was narrated by the actress Julie Christie. Christie also played the main character in the movie made from the book. I thought she did an excellent job as the narrator...

from ffortsa

A young Englishwoman decides to go to India (somewhere in the 1970s, I think), after reading the letters of her grandfather's first wife, who abandoned him for a minor Indian prince. The stories ru...