The Middle Ground Arthur Ransome Anita Desai's stories are peopled

Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon

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A Discworld Tale of One City

The Middle Ground Arthur Ransome Anita Desai's stories are peopledThe Middle Ground is very much a novel of today. It is a celebration of the pleasures and dangers of London life in all its variety, seen through the eyes of a group of friends Kate Armstrong, journalist, Evelyn Stennett, social worker, Ted Stennett, a doctor of sorts (and ex lover of Kate) and Hugo Mainwaring, journalist, anthropologist and wounded adventurer. They are all in their forties 'the middle years, caught between children and parents, free