Naaz and Yasmin are twins, but they couldn’t be more different. Yasmin is blessed with the kind of beauty Naaz can only dream about, and is the favourite of Sophie, their English mother. Naaz has the unconditional love of her strong-willed Parsi grandmoth 1st ed. 312p.

The Dun valley in the early 1970s: the enclave of the idle affluent quiet, green and temperate, as much of India is not. Just the kind of place where ‘the girls from overseas’, five white women married to Indian men, should feel least displaced. Yet, Gert 1st ed. 216p.

In the title story, Robie is looking for a model for a nude he has to paint, when he is introduced to Mrs. Oliver by his friend Turner. When he sees her, he is disappointed at how utterly unsuited she is as a subject for the kind of painting he has in min 1st ed. 224p.