Property of Rain Lambert Angela

Property of Rain Lambert Angela
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"The date is 1921.The Great War is over, but its aftermath casts a long shadow.That year, six thousand miles apart, two children are born.Sam Savage, the youngest child of a farm worker, grows up in a tranquil Suffolk village where apparent serenity hides poverty, hunger and the brutality of Sam's father, from which Sam is compelled to escape.Lakshmi is the unwanted fourth dauhgter of a sweeper and his wife living near Kanpur in north-west India, in a settlement of Untouchables whose culture is as rich as their daily life is poor. At the age of fifteen, these two come together in extreme circumstances, in the midst of the monsoon - an encounter that will have tragic and lifelong consequences.Back in Suffolk seventeen years later, in Coronation year, the rain returns to bring about an appalling retribution.This grippingly plotted novel sweeps the reader through the first half of the twentieth century, conveying a rural way of life that was less idyllic at the time than in retrospect.The book unravels lives and events often distorted by denial and nostalgia.Ruler and ruled confront one another as nations struggle for survival against the forces of sun and rain, greed and pride, under the unblinking eye of the gods. Angela Lambert writes as compellingly as ever about the patterns and pitfalls of family life, but in this searing novel she also analyses the great historical conflicts that led to the loss of Empire.The Property Of Rain is her most ambitious novel yet."

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