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What can a lady in a thin sari do to survive in COLD England?\n\n\nHow will a ship's crew RETURN home without any money?\n\n\nWhen did the young ayah last see her OWN family?\n\n\nAnd why, oh why, did the sailor write WET PAINT in a young girl's diary?\n\n\nNannies and sailors taken 4,000 miles away to England to work...it's the same SORRY tale.\n\n\nOften ABANDONED, they have to find their own way across the sea, back home to India!\n\n\nIt's upsetting. It's shocking. It's breaking our hearts.\n\n\nWhat are we to DO?\n\n\nWell, here are stories – a whole SHEAF of them about – AYAHS in a foreign land and the Indian crew of LASCARS on ships, questioning why the British don't treat these people kindly. Asking to give them the home, the care and the freedom they deserve.\n\n\nBut is ANYONE listening?\n\n\nAre YOU?
Nandini Nayar lives in Hyderabad, India, and writes for children. Her first picture book was Pranav's Picture (Tulika, 25) and her first book for older children was The House of Fourteen Cats, which won the second prize in the Children's Book Trust competition in 25. She now has eleven picture books, two novels, a collection of short stories and several non-fiction titles to her credit.
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