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The sequel to Jewel in the Crown, Paul Scott's Booker prize winning novel about a British colonel and his wife who decide to remain in India after the departure of the British is dramatized as an award-wining television series.

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Review by David Parkinson on 1st February 2007

The recent furore over Celebrity Big Brother suggested that Britain still
has many post-colonial issues. So, the release of this tele-adaptation of
Paul Scott's Booker-winning sequel to The Raj Quartet couldn't be more
timely. Set in India in 1972, the action centres on a childless couple who
are asked by the disapproving owner to leave the hotel annexe where they
have eked out a forgotten existence since independence, 25 years earlier.
The Raj legacy informs every aspect of the story, from the peppery colonel's
fondness for Indians and disdain for Anglo-Indians to the implication that
the past is preventing the sub-continent from fulfilling its modern destiny.
But this is also a poignant study of enduring love, which is made all the
more compelling by the fact the Smalleys are played by Trevor Howard and
Celia Johnson, who were reuniting for the first time since Brief Encounter
(1945). Johnson conveys her loyalty and loneliness with typical
understatement, leaving Howard to dominate as the irascible desk jockey
whose tales of bygone days owe more to myth than memory.

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