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The actress Isla Blair's amazing, moving and uplifting history of her child years in India and her parting from her parents. Given birth to in Bangalore India, during the fading days of the Raj, Isla was raised on a tea plantation monitored by her dad. She spent her early years in the lush, verdant hillsides of Kerala with her precious more aged sister Fiona, secure in the love and devotion of her parents and her adored "Ayah". This warm, spice-scented idyll was abruptly concluded when, appreciated by custom and entirely thinking they were doing the best for his or her daughters, her parents sent Isla and her sister "home" to boarding university. She was not quite six years old. But "home" was wintry, gloomy, post-war austerity Scotland - a land of liberty bodices, chilblains, icy mornings and dank, drizzly days; an alien land where for several years she nursed an amazing secret - which only Fiona was aware. Isla Blair writes lyrically of her loved India, stoically of term times in Spartan British boarding classes and holidays with grandparents and with great humour and vivacity of the time after university when she became one of the youngest students at RADA, training alongside Anthony Hopkins as well as others and throwing herself totally into life in London in the swinging '60s.
