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Staying On
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's Summary
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pankot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their imposing landlady 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.
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- Richard
- 03-08-2019
Very poignant and very sad
Slow to start but more engaging as the story developed. Empathy, sadness and regrets all in one short novel.
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- Kirsty
- 02-03-2021
Very sad, depressing even
Is there anyone likeable in this book - I don't think so and really should have stopped listening early on, finding it very very sad. A story of many people who had started out with ambition but who have been either ground down by life or are about to be. None of them seem to like the others very much and such a small number of characters examined in such detail became very claustrophobic. I read this as from a list of 'timeless classics'. Not one, in my opinion, and a book which I wish I had never come across.
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