Cressida's Bed

Author: Desmond Barry
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

Dr Christina Devenish, Suffragist and Theosophist, is running abirth control clinic in Bombay in 1931. When the clinic is burntdown in an independence riot, her father invites her to visit him inBhutan, where he is an advisor at the court of the Shabdrung,Bhutan's version of the Dalai Lama.Arriving in Calcutta, Christina joins a British expedition to Bhutanled by Major Owen Davies, a tough Political Officer. Davies has thecoven brief to resolve, even by 'drastic action', the rivalry betweenthe Shabdrung and the Maharaja, Bhutan's temporal ruler.Christina's father is deeply embroiled in the Great Game- and forDavies, he's on the wrong side. As Christina and Owen Daviesjourney toward the Himalayas, they begin a hungry love affair,knowing that other loyalties will soon intrude; and when Christinameets the Shabdrung, the young god-king's effect on her leads to adevastating final act.

About Desmond Barry
Desmond Barry was born and brought up in Wales. He works in Tibet during the summer and is presently an External Fellow at Glamorgan University. He is the author of two previous novels, The Chivalry of Crime and A Bloody Good Friday.

(BK-9780099471967)

SKU BK-9780099471967
Barcode # 9780099471967
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author Desmond Barry
Shipping Weight 0.2800kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.700m
Assembled Height 2.200m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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