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Hot Water Man

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099479796

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 197mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 187g

  • RRP: £12.99

Hot Water Man

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

East is East and West is West…

Fresh from London, Christine and Donald Manley have come to the alien swelter of Karachi: Christine to conceive a child, Donald to sell the Pill for a pharmaceutical company. Among the ex-pats already there is straight-talking Duke Hanson, whose all-American values cannot prevent him falling, then sinking, helplessly in love with a sophisticated Pakistani girl. In the ensuing tangle of Anglo-American-Oriental relations, the strangest things for those who have come out East are revealed in the very people with whom they arrived…

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099479796

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 197mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 187g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • Wincingly funny…a tragicomedy of manners and errors. An ambitious book showing Asia through British and American eyes – compassionate, but never sloppy, it notes the flaws and frailties of East and West without mockery

    Daily Mail

  • Entertaining, subtle and intelligent

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Thank God for Deborah Moggach

    Independent

  • No neater entertainment has emerged from the debris of our past on the sub-continent

    Guardian

  • A piece of technical wizardry

    Daily Telegraph

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About the Author

Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach is the author of many successful novels including Tulip Fever and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was made into a top-grossing film starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Her screenplays include the film of Pride and Prejudice, which was nominated for a BAFTA. She lives in Wales.

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