The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Now a major motion picture starring Jude Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson, and Maggie Smith.
 
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are . . . infrequent. But what their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find, it’s plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love.

"[Deborah] Moggach has served us a treat with this novel. Moving, sincere, funny."-Independent on Sunday
 


"Underneath the ironies, [The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel] is a book about remembering-too late, or not too late-how to be alive."-The Times Literary Supplement


"Classic Moggach: funny, touching, and . . . full of colours and visual details."-The Daily Telegraph