01430cam a2200289 4500 480943667 TxAuBib 20210309120000.0 201223s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2020078070 9781982144838 HRD 24.00 1982144831 HRD 24.00 TxAuBib Davies, Carys. The mission house [BOOK] : a novel / Carys Davies. 1st ed. New York : Scribner, 2021. 259 pages ; 22 cm. Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in the UK, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a former British hill station in South India. Charmed by the foreignness of his new surroundings and by the familiarity of everything the British have left behind, he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing. 20210309. British India, South Fiction. Clergy Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. India, South Fiction. Domestic fiction.