'When Aunt Kitty rings at midnight to propose a family anthology, Alice is intrigued. Her wild cousin Sally has always hinted at unrevealed secrets, and this offers a chance to break the conspiracy of silence concerning the family's Indian past. The chain-of-voices mystery that Alice uncovers stretches from the time of the British Raj to the postcolonial era and contemporary Australia. But what exactly is being investigated?...The story of a family caught between two worlds, Midnight Voices is at once a deft reworking of many of the myths about Anglo-Indians and a moving denunciation of racial hypocrisy.' (Source: bookcover)
