Highly recommended for those interested in sexuality, religion, and Hinduism.

Religious Studies Review

The book is fascinating, over-full but in some sense not full enough, frustrating, personal, engaging, sometimes illuminating.

British, Irish and Postcolonial Literatures

Antony Copley's book is...delightful and instructive....He takes us through his reading of the three seminal authors with aplomb and charm.

The Round Table

A valuable contribution to the critical understanding of Carpenter, Forster, and Isherwood. Copley's painstaking research into their lives, and the religions they were drawn to, offers new insights into their writings and relationships-as well as yielding unconventional perspectives on other authors' works.

Times Literary Supplement

Copley's book provides a wealth of fascinating detail about each of these figures, draws important conclusions between their experiences, and raises a series of provocative questions about the nature of the relationships between (homo)sexuality and (Hindu) spirituality.

Journal of the History of Sexuality