Susanna Moore is the author of several novels, includingIN THE CUT, SLEEPING BEAUTIES and THE WHITENESS OF BONES, and four books of nonfiction. She lives in New York City.
After several wretched months at sea, Eleanor Oliphant arrives in Calcutta with her brother Henry and sister Harriet. It is 1836, and her beloved Henry has just been appointed England’s new Governor-General for India. Eleanor is to be his official hostess. Over the course of six years and a trek from Calcutta to Kabul and back, India manages to unsettle all of her “old, old ideas.”