Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick [1995] paperback HORRO Secrets remain

Secrets remain

Jill was counselling a woman called Gwen Simple from Winter Parva and Agatha firmly believed Gwen to have assisted her son in some grisly murders

and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted

And those pictures - those pictures that everyone has seen - mean she can never forget

is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick [1995] paperback HORRO Secrets remain'India has produced a great novelist a master of perpetual storytelling' V. S. Pritchett, New Yorker Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked. But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem's life takes some