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Equally no English artist would have thought of painting the bark of that cross section the same brilliant yellow as the oriole; the tentative washes of a memsahib's watercolour are a world away.

I pretended to know what a memsahib is.

Both look rather like memsahibs, or the children of memsahibs, themselves.

Equally, no English artist would have managed the brilliantly bright colours used by Impey’s artists: the tentative washes of a memsahib’s watercolour are a world away.

Paula McLain’s new novel, “Circling the Sun,” is a throwback to that old Africa — the one that belonged to the British — where house boys wear white gloves and serve tea to memsahib.