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"She writes beautifully, as always, and the phrase-making is as good as the characterization...brilliant."
--"Sunday Telegraph"
.,."classic Moggach: funny, touching and so full of colours and visual details that you feel, after finishing it, as if you've already seen the movie."
--"Daily Telegraph"
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When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his disgusting and difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: 'Can't we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.' His prayer seems to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin, Sonny, sets up a retirement home, recreating a lost corner of England in a converted guesthouse in Bangalore. Travel and set-up are inexpensive, staff willing and plentiful - and the British pensioners can enjoy the hot weather and take mango juice with their gin. "These Foolish Things" is a brilliant comedy of manners, mixing acute observation with a deeper message about how different cultures cope in the modern world. '"These Foolish Things" is classic Moggach: funny, touching and so full of colours and visual details that you feel, after finishing it, as if you've already seen the movie'. - "Daily Telegraph". "'These Foolish Things", a kind of less savage version of Kingsley Amis's unbearably funny novel Ending Up. Moggach's prose is markedly more graceful than Agatha Christie's, her moral world is not dissimilar'. - "The Times". 'A delightful novel' Scotsman'. It is characterisation at which Moggach excels. Her gift is to perceive and describe our confusions about life - and to write with feeling about the continual quest for love and happiness that is part of the human condition.' - "Sunday Times."
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"She writes beautifully, as always, and the phrase-making is as good as the characterization...brilliant."
--"Sunday Telegraph"
.,."classic Moggach: funny, touching and so full of colours and visual details that you feel, after finishing it, as if you've already seen the movie."
--"Daily Telegraph"
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When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his disgusting and difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: 'Can't we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.' His prayer seems to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin, Sonny, sets up a retirement home, recreating a lost corner of England in a converted guesthouse in Bangalore. Travel and set-up are inexpensive, staff willing and plentiful - and the British pensioners can enjoy the hot weather and take mango juice with their gin. "These Foolish Things" is a brilliant comedy of manners, mixing acute observation with a deeper message about how different cultures cope in the modern world. '"These Foolish Things" is classic Moggach: funny, touching and so full of colours and visual details that you feel, after finishing it, as if you've already seen the movie'. - "Daily Telegraph". "'These Foolish Things", a kind of less savage version of Kingsley Amis's unbearably funny novel Ending Up. Moggach's prose is markedly more graceful than Agatha Christie's, her moral world is not dissimilar'. - "The Times". 'A delightful novel' Scotsman'. It is characterisation at which Moggach excels. Her gift is to perceive and describe our confusions about life - and to write with feeling about the continual quest for love and happiness that is part of the human condition.' - "Sunday Times."
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