“Poignant. Yet hopeful in a perverse way. I met Vikram Seth in Oxford in summer of 2005. While signing Two Lives for me, he asked which was my favourite of his books. I told him I knew some of the characters in A Suitable Boy from my days in Calcutta, but this was it. He said this was probably the most cited book of his as people's favourite. It has a music CD which one can buy from Amazon.. Hmm. Considering it..”
