Going Back is a heart-warming account of Monica Jackson's return to the Biligirirangan Hills of Karnataka and the coffee estates where she grew up. Daughter of a maverick English estate owner, her early years were spent on the family plantations in pre-independent India.
Her recollections of those times and the adventures that mark her 'homecoming', provide the book with both its charm and humour. As a serious student of anthropology, Jackson writes with genuine felling for the region and its people, bringing alive the world that she has carried in her heart all these years.