When Amma Went Away won the First Prize in the category General Fiction in the Competition for Writers of Children's Books organized by Children's Book Trust. The other titles by the author published by CBT are Company for Manisha, Whitey and the Monsters, Growing Up, and short stories 'A Cure for Ravi' in Kaleidoscope, 'Our Next-Door Neighbours' in 22 Short Stories, 'Whose Work Is It?' in Teenage Stories and 'The Pigeons' in Indian Folk Tales.
BBC RADIOSHOW As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. 'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens - the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' 'Death is always the next-door neighbour,' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman ...A cryptic 'seventeenth-century' love poem ...And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man ...
The upmarket and salubrious area of Long Island is the stamping ground for a dying breed of America's super-rich. It is also the residence of John Sutter, lawyer - very top-drawer, old money, right clubs - and his sensual wife, Susan. Their lives are about to be turned dramatically upside down by their new 'next-door' neighbour - a certain Mr Frank Bellarosa, top Mafia don and master manipulator. It is he who will impress upon them a rule much older than the archaic etiquette of the old-money set: a favour accepted is a favour owed.
