In a hill station in mid-90s South India, Suman Ghosh is a self-satisfied teacher at a prestigious boarding school. He is a quiet, observant man, prone to mistaking routine for accomplishment. All of which is about to change. A hundred and twenty years before Suman, Reverend Finley arrives from Britain and finds himself drawn to those very same hills. As he learns to love his new home, he also finds himself drawn to what can never be his. A moving love story and an evocative portrait of hill station and boarding school life, The Element of Fog is a gentle, beautifully crafted novel.