The Growing Years

incidents in the life of a family

Plot

Incidents in the Life of a Family The Growing Years is a novel that deals with the life of a mother living in the shadow of death and the painful growing years of her pre-teen and young adolescent children. It delves, with a touch of humour, into the complex psychology of adults and children as they age towards maturity and death, unwilling participants. The novel also deals with an Anglo Indian culture left behind by the colonials who quit India, a culture that has been nurtured and blossoms in the gardens of a hybrid race who still closet themselves in the bungalows of their minds.

About the Author:
Ann Delorme Ann, a second generation Anglo Indian, likes to explore the psyche of a people who had descended from the colonials of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. People, who were caught up in a hybrid culture, an uncanny mixture of east and west which turned them into restless nomads in search of an ideal Anglo India. No such place existed outside the closeted military cantonments of India and in their hearts. They lived a lie and they knew it and they will keep on living that lie as long as they believe in it. Ann loves to write. She is a sculptor and a painter as well. She likes to explore fictional characters, as their lives get messy, and turbulence strikes at the root of their ideals. They twist and turn and grow with her story, as uncertainty and disillusionment draw them into unforeseen circumstances. The Growing Years is her first novel.


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