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Share of Summer

by M. M. Kaye 3 books in this series

Share of Summer is M. M. Kaye's three-volume autobiography, tracing her life from a childhood in British India through education in England, her return to the Raj, years in China and the beginnings of her career as an illustrator and writer. The sequence consists of The Sun in the Morning, Golden Afternoon and Enchanted Evening.

The memoirs combine family history, travel, social observation and the personal experiences later transformed into Kaye's historical novels and mysteries. They are valuable accounts of one British family's colonial world, but their strong nostalgia and privileged viewpoint are part of the historical perspective they preserve.

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Books in this series (3 books)

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1. The Sun in the Morning

M. M. Kaye

First published 1990

4.6(116)

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…

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2. Golden Afternoon

M. M. Kaye

First published 1997

4.2(61)

In 1927 Mollie Kaye returns to India after years at school in England and immediately re-enters the family and social world of the Raj. Delhi seasons, amateur theatricals, travel and the expectations surrounding young British women are set beside her renewed attachment to the country she…

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3. Enchanted Evening

M. M. Kaye

First published 1999

4.5(88)

The final Share of Summer volume begins in 1932, when twenty-four-year-old Mollie Kaye leaves India with her family for China. Their stay ends in disappointment and bereavement, and after her father's death she returns to England needing to support herself through illustration, commercial art and eventually…

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