The sun in the morning

Description:

After 77 pages of family background--her mother was the daughter of a China-based missionary and her father was a British army officer--bestselling novelist Kaye ( The Far Pavilions ), at age 82, recalls her 10 years of idyllic childhood in India as a time in paradise, and her nine years of adolescence in England as a time in purgatory. Although written with gushing, romantic enthusiasm, her kaleidoscopic story of a long-lost innocence just before and after World War I helps to explain Kaye's idealization of the British Raj and her love for Kipling's verse. These loving memories of a beautiful land and its delightful people may surprise readers of Paul Scott's much better written Raj Quartet , but it is probably equally authentic.

subjects: Biography,  British,  Childhood and youth,  English Novelists,  Social life and customs,  Large type books,  Authors, english,  Women authors,  England, social life and customs,  India, social life and customs,  Youth,  New York Times reviewed,  Manners and customs,  Authors, biography,  British, india,  India, biography

People: M. M. Kaye (1908-2004),  M. M. Kaye (1909-)

Places: England,  India,  China

Times: 20th century