Robin Lloyd-Jones

In India, in 1575, Thomas Coryat, English surgeon and rationalist, searches for a cure for his dying wife. With him is his boyhood friend, Frog, a lustful priest seeking to save the souls of those he loathes. Confronting them is an alien world: the exotic, violent India of the Mogul Empires, a world of peasants and lords, courts and villages, warriors and travelling players, warlords and princesses.