Indian Summer

by Will Randall

While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a wonderful life-changing adventure. Set down in Puna (3 hours from Bombay) he begins work teaching English at a slum school. Most of the children are orphans or parentless (one lost his parents four years previously when his mother had let go of his hand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349116784
• ISBN13: 9780349116785
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.6" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Magical and moving

Will Randall, wearied of his job teaching sullen, unresponsive English children, accepts an offer from an eccentric elderly lady to accompany her on her annual journey to India, and then travels to Poona. Once in Poona, Mr Randall finds himself getting caught up in the affairs of an ashram for destitue children, where he is persauded to teach English. His adventures in India are often hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking. The sights and sounds and smells of Poona are vividy described, but it is the people who are most memorable, especially the children of the ashram, whose cheeerfulness and courage and optimism in the midst of appalling poverty and deprivation left me breathless with admiration. Will Randall's story is quite enthralling, and the small triumphs won by the children and the ashram by the end of the book will make you want to cheer. I just couldn't put this book down.