num_pages: 256
description: Tusker and Lucy Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pankot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs. Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair.
language: English
title: Staying On
titlecomplete: Staying On
characters: Minnie, Lucy Smalley, Sigrid Poppadoum, Mrs. Lila Bhoolaboy, Father Sebastian, Susy Williams, Coocoo Menektara, Ibrahim, Mr. Maybrick, Mr. Bhoolaboy, Joseph (divers), Tusker Smalley
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Historical, Classics, Literary Fiction, India, Asia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 3857
places: India
series: The Raj Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Arrow