Kipling & Trix: A Novel - Softcover

'A historical delight' Waterstones 'Hamer's book opens up the complex world of the Kiplings, moving between continents and momentous world events.' Daily Mail 'a tour de force of imaginative fiction as well as a lyrically written, if often harrowing, tale of surprising passion.' Huffington Post 'An unexpectedly exciting read...Kipling's life is a fascinating one and Hamer's provides a richly detailed portrait of it.' Neon Magazine 'Intelligent, moving and a real page-turner' Professor Jan Montefiore, Kent University, in The Kipling Journal.

***Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction*** As small children, Rudyard Kipling and his sister Trix lived an enchanted life in India playing with their beloved servants and running around freely. Their innocent happiness came to an abrupt end when they were sent back to England to live with strangers and forced to conform to the strict rules of Edwardian society in an alien country. Both brother and sister grew up to become writers, although one lived in the shadow of the other's genius. Rudyard Kipling's incredible life is known to many while his poetry and books have been read by millions a " but what became of his talented younger sister? Her story, full of love and lies, became a distressing family secret that was hidden from the world...Mary Hamer has unearthed the truth about Alice Kipling, known to her family affectionately as Trix. In this fictionalised account of their lives, the author goes to the heart of the relationship between a difficult brother and his troubled sister and explores how their early lives shaped the very different people they were later to become.