num_pages: 256
description: The book that inspired the box office hit 
  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
 and this year’s 
  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
 starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel and Penelope WiltonEnticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new life.On arrival, however, they discover the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff are more than a little eccentric and the days of the Raj appear to be long gone.But, as they soon discover, life and love can begin again, even in the most unexpected circumstances.
language: English
title: These Foolish Things
titlecomplete: These Foolish Things
genres: Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Romance, Fiction, India, Travel, Contemporary, Humor, Novels, British Literature
ratings_count: 12197
places: India
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction
publisher: Random House