THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

The Jewel in the Crown was a TV series made by Granada Television in the mid-1980's, one of those drama series that the Brits do rather well. It was based on a quartet of novels written by Paul Scott (the first of which was called the Jewel in the Crown), set against the last years of British rule in India.

I hadn't read the books when I saw the television series. However, when I was on my annual walking tour earlier this year, I bought an omnibus edition of them in a very good second-hand bookshop in Sedburgh. They have been my reading material for the past couple of months, all 1,500 or so pages. Highly receommended, if you haven't come across them.

Walter Blotscher