About the Book: The Last Candles of The Night
After a lifetime in India, Philip returns to Australia in 2001, seeking to
re-establish links with his estranged wife Jenny, whom he had married in India
fifty years earlier. Displaced and disappointed in his hopes of resuming a
career in his own country, Philip is visited by a ghost - Ragini, the young
revolutionary he fell in love with in 1948. and difficult memories are revived.
In 1948 India has achieved its independence, but the princely state of
Hyderabad - the Nizams Dominions - with its feudal splendours and deep pockets
of rural poverty and injustice,