The story of a British army wife in India, before and during the Second World War, when the privileges of the British raj contrasted sharply with the poverty of the indigenous population Expatriate life was not all luxury and comfort though rabid dogs killed babies and deadly insects attacked anything in their path Even amid the grandeur of the hill stations there was fearful isolation and apprehension in a country struggling towards independence and bloody partition Here is a record of a now extinct life style, peopled by a range of memorable characters