First I'm going to tell you what the Financial Times has to say about this book:"Bennett's writing is as lush and sensual as ripe mangos... The tone, which is perfectly pitched, and the exotic setting collude to evoke an era of colonial decadence"Remember this. Now I'm going to tell you "What I l...
Lychev answered at the first ring. ‘I’m looking at young Leon Pikser as we speak,’ he said. I heard a sound like a pencil tapping on glass and thought of the jar Lychev had brought to my office. ‘I don’t think he was anything like as handsome as Catherine says, do you?’ ‘He wasn’t at his best whe...