A Rose in the Banyan Tree

by Richard Hislop

William Heinemann, 1979, [First Edition], hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, minor chipping and discolouration (see photographs)

“Alison is an inexperienced and newly married English girl, arriving in a remote little Indian state with her husband, Peter, a doctor.  Their relationship in conventional, unimaginative, and Alison feels the stirring of a deep discontent which she tries not to acknowledge or name.
While Peter is away at a conference, she meets the lovely Rani and her beautiful daughter and is invited to the Palace.  It is the start of an erotic adventure which plunges Alison into an almost magical world of the senses where all her preconceptions founder.  Exploring an ancient Temple of the Winds, discovering the Hindu arts of lovemaking – and her own sexuality – she is led close to the heart of an India which most of her compatriots, and certainly her husband, could never come to know.”