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Staying On focuses on Tusker and Lucy Smalley, who were briefly mentioned in the latter two books of the Raj Quartet, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils. They were the last British couple who lived in the small hill town of Pankot (after the Indian independence). Tusker was a colonel, a high rank in the British Indian Army.
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Oct 1, 1998 · Staying On describes the intolerable Tusker, the retired Indian army officer who has made a financial horlicks by staying on in a small hill town after independence, and his long-suffering wife Lucy, who see their old world shrinking as the new India rises around them, literally so in the shape of the ghastly Shiraz hotel.
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Jul 30, 2020 · A review of the final book in The Raj Quartet series by Paul Scott, set 20 years after Indian independence. The novel follows the last British couple in Pankot, who struggle to cope with the changing times and their own relationship.
Jan 1, 2001 · Staying On was published in 1977 and won the Booker Prize, but somehow I missed it. This novel revisits India in the years following its independence from British rule. The book is centred in Pankot and the lives of Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley who have decided to “stay on” in India when other British people have gone home.
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Nov 19, 2014 · Staying on is a historical fiction novel set in India during the British colonial rule. It explores the themes of identity, culture, and colonialism through the stories of different characters.
Paul Mark Scott was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy "The Raj Quartet." His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977. Paul Scott was born in Southgate, north London, the younger of two sons. His father, Thomas (1870-1958), was a Yorkshireman who moved to London in the 1920s and was a ...
Jan 3, 2022 · Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days. Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1977.
