Sara Banerji
Autor/a de Shining Hero
Obres de Sara Banerji
Tales from the Bookshop — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1932
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Llocs de residència
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Southern Rhodesia
India - Professions
- artist
sculptor
jockey
waitress
gardener - Biografia breu
- Sara Banerji was born in 1932. As a young girl she lived in Oxfordshire while her father fought in the Second World War. After the war was finally over, in 1945, her family emigrated to what was at that time Southern Rhodesia. They lived in the African Bush in a single mud rondavel, with no electricity or tap water.
Sara Banerji came across her future husband, Ranjit Banerji, in a coffee bar. He had come there as a customer and she was the waitress. They then went to the hills of South India where Sara gave birth to three daughters, one of them Sabita Banerji. Ranjit was a tea planter and Sara was an artist, rode as a jockey and wrote her debut novel. They came back to England in 1973, Ranjit and Sara with £5 each, giving the family earnings a sum of £10. Sara had to borrow some cash. She bought ponies in auctions she went to and gave riding lessons. Afterwards, she started a gardening business in Sussex.
Sara now lives in Oxford with her family. She teaches writing for Oxford University's department for Further Education. She gives exhibitions of her artwork and waste material sculptures regularly. Ranjit and Sara practice meditation and yogic flying every day. They have five grandchildren.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 12
- Membres
- 86
- Popularitat
- #213,013
- Valoració
- 2.6
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 38
Characterisation wasn’t great. Julia – arguably the main character – was OK though seemed a lot younger than she was supposed to be. Kitty is clearly supposed to be young (she wears outlandish clothes and swears copiously every time she opens her mouth) but few other facets of her personality were discernible.
The simplistic, almost naive, tone of some of the sections gave it the feel of a children’s book (from the 9-12 age group), though to make it work as such the present-day sections involving Kitty and her expletives would have to be removed.
The ending was curious. So many ways in which it could have been brought to a conclusion – including the revelation of the ‘twist’ which I guessed, though embarrassingly late in the day (I am gullible). Instead it was allowed to rest on a relatively minor element of the plot – not that it lacked gravitas, but that not enough time had been invested in it to make the reader care, or to justify the importance it was afforded in the end.… (més)