ISBN:9780143104087

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...surely no author until now has written a whole memoir - and a long memoir at that - in commemoration of a great-aunt and great-uncle. There isn't the excuse of celebrity: Vikram Seth's Uncle Shanti and Aunty Henny spent most of their adult lives in a quiet suburban street in Hendon, where Shanti ran a dental practice. But to Seth, who first stayed with them as a 17-year-old and became, in effect, the son they never had, these two seemingly unremarkable people were an extraordinary couple. And certainly they look a striking pair in the photos - natty little Shanti with his gloved right hand, and the pale, storklike Henny towering above him.

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