Through a subtle interleaving of past and present, the overlapping narrative of Chinnery's Hotel traverses two continents and three historical periods. After spending nearly four uneasy decades in her ancestral England and accompanied by her dead sister's daughter Camilia, Grace returns to the cantonment township of Mhow where she had spent a much-cossetted childhood and youth in her parents' establishment called Chinnery's Hotel. The fictional Mhow, with its ...
