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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Deborah Moggach

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EAN: 9780099572022
Published: 16 Feb 2012

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Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure, good weather and mango juice in their gin, a group of very different people leave England to begin a new life in India. On arrival they are dismayed to find the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff more than a little eccentric, and the days of the Raj long gone. But, as they soon discover, life and love can begin again, even in the most unexpected circumstances.

First published with the title These Foolish Things

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What the critics say

Delightful and entertaining
- Mail on Sunday

Warm, wise, funny
- Guardian

Superb... Moggach has served us a treat with this novel. Moving, sincere, funny
- Independent on Sunday

A glorious romp that will inspire roars of recognition
- Sunday Express

Funny and deeply poignant
- Daily Mail

An addictive comedy... A novel that touches on both the sacred and profane
- Independent

She writes beautifully... Brilliant
- Sunday Telegraph

Funny, touching and so full of colours and visual details that you feel, after finishing it, as if you've already seen the movie
- Daily Telegraph

Underneath the ironies, this is a book about remembering - too late, or not too late - how to be alive
- Times Literary Supplement

A kind of less savage version of Kingsley Amis's unbearably funny novel Ending Up. Moggach's prose is markedly more graceful than Agatha Christie's, her moral world is not dissimilar
- The Times

It is characterisation at which Moggach excels. Her gift is to perceive and describe our confusions about life-and to write with feeling about the continual quest for love and happiness that is part of the human condition
- Sunday Times

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About the Author

Deborah Moggach is the author of many successful novels including the bestseller Tulip Fever and two collections of short stories. Her screenplays include the film of Pride and Prejudice, which was nominated for a BAFTA. She lives in North London.