- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Pan; New Ed edition (16 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330487841
- ISBN-13: 978-0330487849
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 605,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘They came for the sea change,’ said Auntie Sanni and she might have added . . . ‘into something rich and strange'
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Blaise and Mary arrive at Patna Hall, a hotel on India’s shimmering Coromandel coast, to spend part of their honeymoon. Patna Hall is as beautiful and timeless as India itself, ruled over firmly and wise by proprietor Auntie Sanni. For Mary it feels strangely like home. In a week that will change the young couple’s destiny, election fever grips the Southern Indian state and Mary falls under the spell of the people, the country – and Krishnan, godlike candidate for the Root and Flower party . . . ‘A sense of timelessness reminiscent of E.M. Forster . . . social comedy slowly spirals into personal tragedy’ The Times ‘The prose is as simple and luminous as the fantasy it elaborates . . . an interlude of exoticism and sensuous pleasure’ Independent On Sunday ‘Sheer enjoyment’ Guardian ‘The miracle of this book is Godden’s genius for storytelling’ Evening Standard
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As someone who counts herself as a bit of a fan of Rumer Godden I can say that this is my favourite of her books. I first read this when I was eighteen and had a lot of time for Mary's character. I can understand someone who gets swept up in what they think they are feeling and then discovers they have tied themselves to a stranger they don't even like very much. The romance of the setting carries one away and I have a vivid picture of the hotel, beach and surrounding area. I enjoyed the characters, both bad and good and one can't help hoping that things will work out as they ought for Mary. I would like to say more, but fear that whatever I say might give away the story. Maybe not a lad's book, but an enjoyable read never the less and one that can be read again.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with all Rumer Godden novels this is short but sweet. India is recreated with finely nuanced skill, never mind the perfectly pitched social relationships binding all the characters. From honeymooning Mary and Blaise to Menzies (the somewhat shady traveller) and ambitious Kuku, Rumer Godden has taken a broad brush and depicted fully living, breathing, feeling characters. Her books are always hard to categorise. Part mystery, part character-awakening, part snapshot of life abroad and cross-cultural exchange there is so much to discover in Godden's work. Coromoandel Sea Change may be less well known than Black Narcissus or the Greengage Summer but it still packs an enormous punch and is definitley one to savour.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A wonderful story in a fabulous setting
30 Oct 2003
Format:Hardcover
This story is set in Patna Hall, a delightfully old-fashioned hotel on the stunning Coromandel coast in southern India. A local election has filled the hotel with workers for the Root and Flower Party, and the other hotel guests get caught up in the election fever, especially Mary, on her honeymoon, but increasingly fascinated by Krishnan, the Root and Flower candidate. Auntie Sanni, the hotel proprietor is a delightful character, and the rest of the hotel staff are a a fascinating bunch. As election day approaches, anger and jealousy come to the boil as Mary's husband understandably gets more and more fed up about his wife's absorbtion in the election. A gripping story from beginning to end. Warning: do not read this book if you are hungry, there are mouth-watering descriptions of unbearably delicious things to eat throughout the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful details, sad stereotypes...
5 Feb 2009
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Blackmail, love, drama, tragic events and, as always somewhere in the novels I have by Rumer Godden, somebody's death. The India she gives us is so rich, so wonderful, that I doubt it ever existed outside of the papers of her books. But the characters could be out of any hacker's mystery novel. Blaise, the young hot head who thinks his wife should obey his every wish, Mary, his wife who wants to enjoy life, and so on. Lords, Ladies, complaining Americans, an elephant, we get everything you could ever have in India. Funny enough, no Nuns.
Get it used, make some tea, pick a weekday to read it - I had problems reading over a week because I kept wanting to drop everything and go read it.
Get it used, make some tea, pick a weekday to read it - I had problems reading over a week because I kept wanting to drop everything and go read it.
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