In one of this author's novels, a doctor's wife tells a cautionary tale about a lady from Somerset who was assaulted by her washerman after his lust was inflamed by the underwear she gave him to iron.
In one of this author's novels, a doctor's wife tells a cautionary tale about a lady from Somerset who was assaulted by her washerman after his lust was inflamed by the underwear she gave him to iron. The protagonist is horrified when an Italian angel monument causes her to find the grave of that woman's child while strolling through a cemetery, in that novel by this author. This author wrote a novel in which a repeated scene features characters tying red strings to the Baba Firdaus shrine. Marcia gives Harry a set of letters written in 1923 that inspire the narrator to retrace the steps of a woman to the town of X in the (*) Himalayan foothills, in a Booker Prize-winning novel by this author, whose narrator has an affair with Inder Lal that mirrors Olivia Rivers's affair with the Nawab of Khatm in colonial India. She wrote screenplays for films like The Remains of the Day and A Room with a View for Merchant Ivory Productions. For 10 points, name this author of Heat and Dust.
In one of this author's novels, a doctor's wife tells a cautionary tale about a lady from Somerset who was assaulted by her washerman after his lust was inflamed by the underwear she gave him to iron.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [or Ruth Prawer]