Developing the Heart

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Both a refection on India’s history and a biographical retelling of Forster’s travels there in the early 1900s, this book delves into the past to better understand the impact certain events and people had on his writing, allowing readers to watch as Forster matures over time. Nigel Collett, a retired lieutenant-colonel of the British Brigade of Gurkhas, now a biographer based in Hong Kong, is the author of The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer (2006), Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung (2014), and A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal (2018, second edition 2020). Often using Forster’s ownwordsto evoke a vivid landscape, thisisthe story of the most dramatic and exotic part of the life of one of England’s greatest novelists.