This is less a sequel to and more a coda to The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott. Those novels, which average 450 pages, and both expansive in detail, rich in structural choices, and narrowly focused, deal with the waning days of the British Raj in India in the years surrounding the Second World War. They were published from the late 1960s through the early 1970s. They are impressive and brilliant. This novel is a slim sequel that was published in 1978, a year before the […]