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Book Review: Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling: Kipling's search for lost paradise
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20071201
Author:TOM ADAIR
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling by Charles Allen Little Brown, 426pp, GBP 20
BORN IN BOMBAY, "A BLAZING beauty of a place", Rudyard Kipling, from the beginning, was bumptiously rowdy, happy and spoilt, a precocious nuisance who grew more precociously prodigious with the years. At the age of two he was brought to England by his mother, while she gave birth to his sister, Trix. On returning to India, he enjoyed a golden childhood, a paradise lost when his parents ferried him and his sister once more to England, then dumped them on strangers, an abandonment from which ...
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