** The following was taken from the covers of Golden Afternoon. My review does not follow, since I have not yet read this. I'm still on the first volume! **

Returning from an English boarding-school to India in 1927, Mollie Kaye plunges into the glories -- and embarrassments -- of the Delhi Season. But more than the social life of the Raj, she rediscovers her love for the country -- the magic paradise of Kashmir, the sun-scorched plains of Rajputana, the teeming life of the markets and the complexities of high-caste life. Spiced with humour, incident and her trenchant views of the world, both then and now, Golden Afternoon is sufficed above all with the enchantment that is India.

Some Reviews for Golden Afternoon:

'Will not be bettered as a record of a vanished world'

~Sunday Telegraph

'A memoir that breathes an elixir of youthful rapture and abandonment . . . the exotic sights and sounds and the ravishing and dramatic landscapes are described with irresistible tenderness and nostalgia.'

~Elizabeth Buchan, Mail on Sunday

'Kaye's passionate love affair with India is brought vividly to life through her evocative descriptions of people, customs and countryside'

~Woman & Home

'Has that turn-the-page readability of writers born to the craft . . . Golden Afternoon is like a love affair with India that goes on and on . . . As a memoirist she involves her readers as friends . . . highly enjoyable'

~Ion Trewin, Hampstead & Highgate Express



My Review

As I am still reading The Sun in the Morning, I have not yet had a chance to read this book. But I will get on it soon, hopefully!

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