The Bloodstone Papers - Couverture rigide

'Loops back and forth through history with remarkable lucidity . . . Very moving' Guardian
Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural melange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both. Epic in its scope, yet never losing sight of the telling detail, The Bloodstone Papers is a richly satisfying read which manages to ask the big questions without fuss, and accept that the big answers aren't always what you want to hear.
'Glen Duncan manages fluid narrative boundaries magnificently . . . A terrific yarn' Independent on Sunday
'It's unusual to criticise a novel for having characters who are too interesting, but if The Bloodstone Papers has a fault, it's that the Monroes, an Anglo-Indian family whose story begins in incipiently independent India and ends in the present day, are so beautifully vivid that one wouldn't care if nothing actually happened to them . . . The Bloodstone Papers resists the moral certitudes of much colonial fiction while achieving a vivid portrait of India which never slides into the exotic' Sunday Telegraph
'More ambitious than Duncan's earlier novels, without forfeiting any of their emotional intensity . . . Our sense that at the end of the novel both everything and nothing are resolved mirrors the blurred self-definition of the Anglo-Indians themselves. Such strength as the characters acquire comes from a conviction, shared with their author, in the enduring validity of love' Jonathan Keates, TLS
£7.99
Pocket Books
FICTION
ISBN-10: 1416522778

Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural mélange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both.

Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for get-rich-quick schemes. Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a sexually predatory household. Both are Anglo-Indians, members of a race that helped turn the wheels of Empire for years. But Empire days are numbered, and as India sheds its colonial skin, the young lovers must face their own tryst with destiny.

In twenty-first-century England, Owen Monroe is writing this story of his parents' lives in an effort to avoid the problems in his own: lost love, relentless libido, dreams of death, and a world full of headlines he can't understand and doesn't want to. But keeping past and present apart isn't as easy as it seems, and before long Owen is deep in the one story he never wanted to tell....

Epic in its scope yet never losing sight of the telling, gorgeous detail, The Bloodstone Papers is an extraordinarily rich and beautiful read that manages to ask the big questions without fuss and to accept that the big answers aren't always what we want to hear.