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A Black Englishman - Carolyn Slaughter

Description: ISBN 0571220266 / Author: Carolyn Slaughter / Genre: Fiction / Isabel, a young woman in flight from the ravages of the Great War, throws ... more

A Black Englishman - Carolyn Slaughter ... herself headlong into a passionate and dangerous liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor, and Oxford graduate - but their devotion to one another takes them across the length and breadth of India and to the brink of disaster. This powerful and erotic love story combines the urgent and contemporary themes of colonial exploitation, race and sexuality, and compellingly explores the many forms of partition - secular and religious - that infect and endanger the modern world.

Newest Review: ... base in the Punjab the base was in turmoil at the murder of an army wife and the suicide of her husband who had shot her. ... more

... This should have been a warning about the risks of fooling around but was one she chose to ignore. Isabel quickly learned that the rules of behaviour in the army were every bit as tough for the wives as for the men. She also found that by marrying down she was no longer the peer of the sort of women who would have been her equal back in Wales. She set off to test the boundaries of what she could get away with - visiting the local markets, and riding astride in her jodhpurs instead of side-saddle in a skirt. With her hus...more

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A Black Englishman - Carolyn Slaughter: Race and Romance but not a very Racy Romance (2014 words)
by - written on 03/01/08 (Very useful, 142 readings)
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I'm always attracted to fiction about the Indian sub-continent and if it is set in places I've visited, then it's all the more interesting to me. After my recent trip to Northern India I've also started to take a much greater interest in the issues surrounding the Independence Movement of the early 20th Century. So you would suppose that a book set in Northern India in the 1920s would be right up my street. That's what I thought too. A Black Englishman was in a pile of freebies I got from a friend and over Christmas, it eventually floated to the top of the pile. The Plot ******* 'A Black Englishman' is the tale of a Welsh girl who marries a soldier, ... Read the complete review