The Mimic Men (PocketBook)

‘We pretended to be real, to be learning,, to be preparing ourselves for life, we mimic men of the New world, one unknown corner of it, with all its reminders of the corruption that came so quickly to the new.

Just forty, Ralph Singh -  a disgraced colonial minister exiled from the Caribbean island of his birth – writes his biography in a genteel hotel in a run-down London suburb.