About the book: 1988 / A British Army colonel and his wife Lucy chose to stay in a small town in India with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals after the country received independence in 1947. This is an interesting story about how two elderly Britons cope with life in a new place. The novel is mainly about old age and a long marriage, about the fear of being left alone and poor when one of the spouses dies.... In 1977, the novel “Stay to the End” received the Booker Prize.