Like The Wind
When newly weds Rupa and Aruna arrive in swinging
sixties London, their marriage soon starts to crumble and Rupa finds herself
a single parent in a northern inner city. Daisy Abey's brilliant novel
alternates between exotic scenes set in a village in the jungle (to quote a
title of Leonard Woolfe's) and the very different worlds of London and
Leeds. When Rupa meets poet Chris Hunter it seems her problems have ended
but this is far from the case. Rupa's difficulties are compounded by
tensions between conflicting customs of East and West.
