In Search Of Love And Beauty - Tapa blanda

Her tussle with India is one of the richest treats of contemporary literature * Guardian * Deliciously comic * Daily Telegraph * Among the best fiction written about the country since A Passage to India * Observer * Each work has her hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor and beauty * New York Times Book Review * A writer of genius ... a writer of world class - a master storyteller * Sunday Times * Praise for her previous work: The scenes are so precisely balanced and counterpoised that each enriches and illuminates * Listener * Brilliantly readable * Auberon Waugh, Daily Mail *

Through a rich mosaic of episodes, shifting intricately back and forth from the 1930s to the present day, the lives of three generations are traced. Linked by the incessant longing for inner fulfilment, grandmother, mother, son and daughter pursue their selfish quests by very different routes. Yet each is drawn, either by love or by hate, to the magnetic Leo Kellermann, former Adonis, guru, charlatan/genius and founder of the dubious Academy of Potential Development.