An Indian in My Bed Gylda Thomas An Indian in My Bed is a fascinating and upfront true-life account of a 60-year-old Englishwoman's love affair with an Indian waiter half her age. The author met him during a trip to Southern India undertaken with more spiritual objectives in mind. The book's frankness, its romantic spirit, and the light it throws on sexual relations between middle-class western travellers and young opportunist Asian men - is not always as clear but as one might imagine, as witness the crucial part played in this story by the waiter's dying mother. One reads with increasing curiosity about what becomes of this unlikely couple. Like Jane Juska's 'A Round-Heeled Woman', Gylda Thomas writes openly and sympathetically about the sort of relationship - crossing age, race, nationality and class barriers - that's still considered taboo in some quarters.
				Gylda Thomas is an Arts Graduate who taught Life and Portrait Sculpture in two London art schools. She became interested in writing in 2001 when she started An Indian in My Bed following a journey to the sub-continent. Vegetarianism underpins her philosophy of life. She is a romantic idealist and espouses the concept of harmlessness, although she often wonders what it is. Travel is her passion. People and relationships are all important to her and a never-ending source of interest. If you want to contact me please email me at gylda@fsmail.net