Dr Ravi Kapoor has reached the end of his tether. He is over-worked & exhausted; his South London hospital is out of funds; & reporters are hounding him about a pensioner, who for three days lay on a trolley in A & E, untended, the blood stiffening on her clothes. Even home life has become impossible, as his father-in-law, a disgusting & difficult old man, has been kicked out of his nursing home & has moved into Ravi's spare bedroom. But then that 'tip top man', his cousin, Sonny, has his brainwave, his 'great eureka'. These Foolish Things is about Dunroamin, a converted guesthouse in Bangalore, where Sonny opens a home for old people. Travel & set-up are inexpensive, staff willing & plentiful
- & the British pensionsers can enjoy the hot weather & take mango juice with their gin. Skilfully inter-weaving the stories of the inhabitants of Dunroamin, their characters & their families, Deborah Moggach has created a world in which hilarity is matched with the poignancy of getting old, & comedy with the darker issues of care in the community.