
Born in Bangalore India during the fading days of the Raj Islas early years were spent in the lush verdant hills of Kerala on a tea plantation run by her father. This warm spice-scented idyll was abruptly ended when obliged by tradition & believing there were doing the best for their daughters Islas parents sent their daughters home to baording school. Isla was not quite six years old. Home as cold gloomy post-war austerity Scotland
- a land of liberty bodices chilblains icy mornings & dank days: an alien land where for several yars she nursed an astonishing secret- of which only her sister Fiona was aware. Isla Blair writes lyricallly of her beloved India stoically of term times in Spartan British boarding schools & with great humour & vivacity of the time after school when she became one of the younges students at RADA training alongside Anthony Hopkins & others & throwing herself fully into life in London in the swinging sixties.