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Summer was published by Abacus on 5th February 2004
Will
Randall thought teaching in an inner London comprehensive was a
difficult job. But that was nothing compared to his next assignment:
saving a slum school in the Indian city of Poona.
Learning
as much as he is teaching, Will finds that his life is transformed
by his remarkable class of orphans: Dulabesh, the head-standing
joker who lost his parents on a crowded railway platform; Prakash,
who learnt self-sufficiency the hard way by scavenging in skips,
the nutty yet charming Tanushri, fan of the singer ‘Maradona’.
When the slum barons threaten to level the school, Will hits upon
the idea of a fund-raising play to save it: the 24,000-verse Indian
epic the Ramayana, ever so slightly condensed…
Funny,
sharp and poignant, Will Randall’s second book is gloriously
life-affirming, exposing the India the tourist doesn’t see.
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