Publishers Weekly, June 21st, 1991
Although the plot of the celebrated English novelist (Black Narcissus) and memoirist's (A House with Four Rooms) latest effort is sadly stale, it is worth reading for its profusion of atmospheric delights. Godden invokes her beloved India in all its colors, creating a hotel by the Coromadel Sea and peopling it with staff and guests, mostly British and American, who enact some nefarious dramas. The bevevolent Auntie Sanni, proprietor, watches knowingly as a diplomatic couple on their honeymoon comes to grief, rent by disparate visions of India: what stuffy Blaise sees as s...
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