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What happens inside a family when an act of brutal violence - the cause of speculation for many years - suddenly erupts without warning or explanation? This story opens in India in the 1930s.
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Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published his first three novels. He then joined the British Council, working in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Finland and Japan, before he resigned to devote himself entirely to writing. For some years he was drama critic for the Sunday Telegraph and he reviewed fiction regularly for the Spectator. He won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize and the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Act of Darkness (1983). His penultimate book, The Nick of Time, was long-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Francis King died in 2011.
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- PublisherPenguin UK
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0140072950
- ISBN 13 9780140072952
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages336
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