Barbara Cleverly
Barbara Cleverly is a former teacher and a graduate of Durham University who now lives in Cambridge. Her debut, The Last Kashmiri Rose, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2002.
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Barbara Cleverly is a former teacher and a graduate of Durham University who now lives in Cambridge. Her debut, The Last Kashmiri Rose, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2002.
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This is not much of a review, but I'm having some time on my hands and thought I'd update some posts. I picked up Ragtime in Simla a few years ago when work took me northern India. I travelled with a colleague who was going to stay for the same period and we decided to plan a trip to Shimla over t...
This was a diverting mystery, but it doesn't make me want to read more of this series or the author. I did like the (to me) exotic time and place, that of the last years of the British Raj in 1922 in the Bengal region, and for better or worse I don't know enough to know if it's accurate, but it make...
It was hard for me to read through the style of the book
It was hard for me to read through the style of the book
I enjoy Barbara Cleverly's books, even though sometimes I struggle through them. I appreciate the history lessons, especially of a period in history that is not covered in most American school history classes. It is definitely the unknown history and geography that are at the root of my struggles ...