Client details
Sara Banerji
Author
Agent
| Charles Walker | +44 (0) 20 3214 0874 |
About
Sara was born in England but spent her later childhood in the African bush, where the family was ravaged by tropical disease and bush fires. Having returned to England and married, she spent the following seventeen years with her Indian husband in the South Indian hills, tea-planting and bringing up three daughters. She now lives in Oxford. |
Gallery
Blood Precious 
Shining Hero 
Waiting Time
Other
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| BLOOD PRECIOUS 2007 TRANSITA | Snobbish, aloof and eighty years old, Lady Arabella Cunningham-Smythe wishes she were dead. Then she could join her late husband as they had planned so meticulously before he died. But a band of well meaning friends and relations are determined to thwart her wishes. When her beloved four year old granddaughter, Naomi - who has magical powers - is kidnapped, her will to live must return if she is to turn detective, successfully outwit a mass murderer - and learn how to use her mobile phone. In the hunt for Naomi, her experiences are more varied and intense than in the whole of her previous life. In the process, she discovers at last who she really is. |
| THE WAITING TIME 2005 TRANSITA | Julia is searching for a vanished brother and a lost identity; the truth is buried under a stranger's home. |
| SHINING HERO 2002 FLAMINGO | In Calcutta, a baby is discovered by Dolly, who is desperate for a child. She brings him up as her son, calling him Karna. But the events which see his good fortune turn to tragedy have already begun, so that years later, he's forced to seek out his mother Koonty, now married and with her own son. |
| WRITING ON SKIN 1993 DOUBLEDAY | When Hermione - eccentric, seventy and returned from India to a 'safe' life in the Home Counties - encounters Slug street-painting on the pavement, she employs him as assistant gardener. Slug, who has the motto 'Never Grow Old' tattooed across his head, will soon sort out Gerald, the pin-striped head gardener, soften his ruthless marshalling of her plants and introduce a more effusive atmosphere to her estate. But when Hugh, Hermione's huge husband, dies, Slug's skinhead cronies begin to threaten her peace, and Hermione retreats to the chaos of India, chasing the memories of her previous life. What happened to the young Indian with whom she fell passionately in love when she was nineteen, and who had insisted that she marry the more 'suitable' Hugh? Can she recreate the dream of over fifty years ago? |
| ABSOLUTE HUSH 1991 GOLLANCZ | A bold, fantastical work of the imagination whose ending is an extraordinary marriage of pyrotechnics and grace - Observer |
