Coromandel Sea Change

'They came for the sea change,' said Auntie Sanni and she might have added... 'into something rich and strange.' 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... - Includes a previously unpublished short story, Summer Diary. - Rejacketed as part of a series of Rumer Godden reissues. - With a new introduction by Raffaella Barker.