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Shadow of the moon kaye
Shadow of the moon kaye









She got £64 for it, which, with her stories for small children, raised enough for the passage back to India, and life with her sister Bets in Simla.

shadow of the moon kaye

So I sat down and wrote one," she later recalled. When her father died, Kaye slipped into solitary exile on a £1.15s pension in London, illustrating novels: "Most of the stuff I was reading was total rubbish, and I used to think I couldn't write worse. Her mother wanted to marry her off to an officer, but she rejected all proposals. Then, in 1926, her father was recalled to help revise treaties with princely states, and took her home to India. She went on to art school watercolours were a British Indian habit.

shadow of the moon kaye

Kaye was sent back to Britain at the age of 10 to be Anglicised at boarding school, never expecting again to smell the dust on the morning of the rains.











Shadow of the moon kaye