Staying On (Scott)

Staying On (The Raj Quartet, Epilogue)
Paul Scott, 1977
University of Chicago Press
216 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780226743493

Summary
Winner, 1977 Booker Prize

In this sequel to "The Raj Quartet," Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status.

Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage.

Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a 1979 motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. (From the publisher.)