Indian Summer
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A birthday present from parents - been on my amazon wishlist for ages!
This was a charming, warm, life affirming book!
Amazon Review
This is Will Randall's second travel memoir. After returning to London from the South Pacific, he finds himself, reluctantly and finance oblige, hostage at the hands of screaming students at a London council school. So when the opportunity arises to accompany an elderly woman to her Indian destination of Poona, all travel expenses paid, he figures his bank manager can wait just a while longer for any semblance of ordered accounts. Upon delivery of the package, Maria-Helena von Wurfellurfer, his story begins. Randall stumbles across a slum orphanage, children of stark contrast to the monsters he taught in London, and grudgingly accepts a plea for help. His realisation of the determined, light-hearted nature of a bunch of children, whose only hope is threatened by corporate enterprise, sees him swept away in an Indian torrent of school drama and Bollywood film while trying to save the slum school. Indian Summer is a comic and poignant account about making a difference, regardless of its magnitude, exposing the India few tourists could see.
Amazon Review
This is Will Randall's second travel memoir. After returning to London from the South Pacific, he finds himself, reluctantly and finance oblige, hostage at the hands of screaming students at a London council school. So when the opportunity arises to accompany an elderly woman to her Indian destination of Poona, all travel expenses paid, he figures his bank manager can wait just a while longer for any semblance of ordered accounts. Upon delivery of the package, Maria-Helena von Wurfellurfer, his story begins. Randall stumbles across a slum orphanage, children of stark contrast to the monsters he taught in London, and grudgingly accepts a plea for help. His realisation of the determined, light-hearted nature of a bunch of children, whose only hope is threatened by corporate enterprise, sees him swept away in an Indian torrent of school drama and Bollywood film while trying to save the slum school. Indian Summer is a comic and poignant account about making a difference, regardless of its magnitude, exposing the India few tourists could see.
