The Sun in the Morning

M. M. Kaye begins her autobiography with her 1908 birth in Simla and a childhood divided between the hill station, Delhi and journeys connected with her father's work. Family stories, servants, languages, landscapes and amateur theatre create a detailed memory of British India before and during the First World War.

At ten, Mollie and her sister are sent to England for education, beginning years of separation from their parents and the country they consider home. The volume follows her school years and early artistic ambitions to her return to India at eighteen, ending where Golden Afternoon begins.