{"product_id":"set-in-authority","title":"Set In Authority","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Imperialist\u003c\/em\u003e, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. \u003cem\u003eSet in Authority\u003c\/em\u003e is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly observed characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuncan, who grew up in Ontario, led a remarkably varied life, working as a political correspondent (writing for the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eToronto Globe\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eMontreal Star\u003c\/em\u003e) and living in India for over twenty years. She is increasingly being regarded as deserving of a place among the first rank of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists; the re-publication of \u003cem\u003eSet in Authority\u003c\/em\u003e will do nothing to dispel that view.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57311759434110,"sku":"NW9781551110806","price":28.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781551110806.jpg?v=1778584498","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/set-in-authority","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}