"I liked the quiet of the small district town to the kind of social life I might have found in the cities; and there was enough for my enjoyment and occupation in my books, my writing, and the surrounding hills." The way Ruskin Bond depicts small-town life is both wonderfully endearing and lovely. It is a doorway into a world of quirky, eccentric, but above all friendly and compassionate people who coexist with the scenic and intriguing past of these places. My Time in the Town is a compilation of Bond's best writing on small-town India in all its subtle, yet straightforward, leisurely splendour. Bond demonstrates the warmth and allure of small-town life in these pieces. While also exposing the often dark, superstitious, ghostly or even just politically corrupt aspects of it. This book promises to be a journey into the soulful and laid-back simplicity of small towns!