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In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hillsides of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them with their colonial position. Finally sick and tired of accommodating her hubby, Lucy says a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker function out class tensions among the list of British isles of the Raj and give tone of voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn passion in their relationship. Keeping On earned the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979.
"Staying On very good transcends the events of its central action. . . . [The work] should help earn for Scott . . . the reputation he deserves—as one of the better novelists to emerge from Britain's magic years."—Robert Towers, Newsweek
"Scott's perspective is both specific and painterly. As an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he chooses nuances that can make his characters take on depth and poignancy."—Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Publication Review
"A graceful comic coda to the earlier music of India. . . . Nobody writing has learned or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting much better than Scott."—Paul Grey, Time
"Staying On provides a type of postscript to [Scott's] deservedly acclaimed The Raj Quartet. . . . He has, as it were, summoned the Raj's ghost in Staying On. . . . It's the report of the living loss of life, in old age, and the ultimate end of the walk-on character from the quartet. . . . Scott has completed the task of covering in the form of a imaginary narrative the events before India's partition and the accomplishment of independence in 1947. It really is, on any teaching, a creditable accomplishment."—Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times Publication Review
