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These Foolish Things

These Foolish Things

by Deborah Moggach (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1st Vintage Book Edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 31 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0099461846
ISBN 13: 9780099461845
Book Overview: Now a major motion picture - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - starring Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Penelope Wilton and Celia Imrie.

Media Reviews
She writes beautifully, as always, and the phrase-making is as good as the characterisation...brilliant * Sunday Telegraph *
A delightful novel * Scotsman *
These Foolish Things, 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 *
Moggach has served us a treat with this novel. Moving, sincere, funny, terrifying in places, it is a truthful view of old age and what it brings * Independent on Sunday *
Author Bio
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.