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Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon
But in a scene of bitter humiliation in front of a televised audience and before the eyes of his family
Hearts will break
Nora Watts isn't sure that she wants to get involved
And that's not all
Fox Evil HarperCollins Children's Books Anita Desai's stories are peopledWhen elderly Ailsa Lockyer Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule the roost?
