The Gap-Toothed Banister- A Tale of Anglo-India

About the Book The Gap-Toothed Banister of Anglo-India is close, at community facing challenges of change, portrays with clarity lives of Anglo-Indians Calcutta 60s and 70s.

In shabby apartment block Central Calcutta, four families, the Renshaws, D'Cruzes, and Vincents live harmony. This smooth tempo changes forever one humid night families' lauded, the other attacked.

Tragedy and horror seem to haunt apartment block. The next day a resident raped a servant. The social fabric has been rent a way that tilts this brings together all the other families the as this block of flats is wryly nicknamed.

Gap-Toothed Banister is love story, in kindergarten hues but with softer colours hope and faith. It is a story of a people confused than disloyal, puzzled by a lack appreciation their myriad talent and by an anger what is perceived as scornful rejection.

interest all curious about mores and magic Anglo-India.

About the Author Juliette Banerjee is the author of The Boyfriend and Other Short Stories, and Flowers from a Book, a volume of poetry. Born in Kolkata, she lives with her family in Sydney since 1987.

Juliette has been a school teacher as well as a columnist, theatre critic, feature writer and book reviewer both in Kolkata and Sydney for major newspapers and magazines, including The Statesman, Junior Statesman (JS) and The Illustrated Weekly of India. In Australia, she has contributed to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Telegraph.

She is a voracious reader and a film junkie. She enjoys playing the piano.

Her other love is the sea and she is an enthusiastic volunteer at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.

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