New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.). First edition - Set in India in post-war 1920, a time of great turmoil, this is an erotic story of an interracial love affair between a white Englishwoman and an Oxford educated Indian doctor - the author was born in New Delhi, India - this is based on the life of Slaughter's grandmother who was incarcerated in mental institutions since 1936 even though she was not mentally ill. 334 pp.