The sun in the morning
my early years in India and England
by M. M. Kaye
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Born to British parents from families with a tradition of service in India and China, Kaye's "conversation" is rich with recollections of a carefree childhood in British-governed India (The Raj) and of a more restricted adolescence in school at "home"--In drab England so far from her real home and from her beloved father and social butterfly of a mother. This rag-bag of exotic and mundane scraps (a metaphor that Kaye establishes in the foreword) spills forth palpable scenes of family and folklore, of friendships and of memorable events.
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The Sun in the Morning
January 2002, Ulverscroft Large Print, Charnwood Crown
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in English
070899332X 9780708993323
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The sun in the morning: the autobiography of M.M. Kaye.
1992, Curley Pub.
in English
0792709721 9780792709725
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The sun in the morning: being the first part of Share of summer, her autobiography
1992, Penguin
in English
014013896X 9780140138962
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The sun in the morning: my early years in India and England
1990, St. Martin's Press
in English
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After 77 pages of family background--her mother was the daughter of a China-based missionary and her father was a British army officer--bestselling novelist Kaye ( The Far Pavilions ), at age 82, recalls her 10 years of idyllic childhood in India as a time in paradise, and her nine years of adolescence in England as a time in purgatory. Although written with gushing, romantic enthusiasm, her kaleidoscopic story of a long-lost innocence just before and after World War I helps to explain Kaye's idealization of the British Raj and her love for Kipling's verse. These loving memories of a beautiful land and its delightful people may surprise readers of Paul Scott's much better written Raj Quartet , but it is probably equally authentic.
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