Writing on Skin

by Sara Banerji

When Hermione - eccentric, seventy and returned from India to a 'safe' life in the Home Counties - encounters Slug street-painting on the pavement, she employs him as assistant gardener. Slug, who has the motto ' Never Grow Old' tattooed across his head, will soon sort out Gerald, the pin-striped head gardener, soften his ruthless marshalling of her plants and introduce a more effusive atmosphere to her estate.

But when Hugh, Hermione's huge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448208459
• ISBN13: 9781448208456
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A woman with two lives, two loves and an odd view

To try to categorise this book would do it an injustice. It is romantic and disgusting, exciting and moving. One of those rare books that you can't put down. It is only a shame that it is out of print! May be some one will make it into a movie. A woman outlives her husband, after a life in India retiring to an English suburb. She sees glimpses of modern life and it's associated problems; drugs, theft and suicide. She turns away from her home country and returns to India to find a different life.