Golden Afternoon: The Autobiography Of M M Kaye

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 suffused above all with the enchantment that is India.