A Black Englishman

By: Carolyn Slaughter
Published in London, Faber and Faber, 2004

Isabel in her early twenties travel with her newlywed Neville Webb, a military man to India, escaping Wales with the sadness of losing her fiancé and the suffering of WWI. They arrive to Punjab in 1920 a time when the country was involved in violent clashes between religious and social sects and struggling to free itself from British rule. While her husband was away from home in a mission for ten months, Isabel  was ill with malaria, she met Samresh Singh, so called black Englishman, an Indian doctor educated at the best British schools and graduated from Oxford,  They fall in love that neither has known before, but she underestimate her husband anger and the extent of his revenge.