'They came for the sea change,' said Auntie Sanni and she might have added ... 'into something rich and strange'
Rumer Godden was one of Britain's most distinguished authors, with many justly famous and much-loved books for both adults and children to her credit, including The River, Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The Peacock Spring. She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998, aged ninety.
A sense of timelessness reminiscent of E.M. Forster . . . social
comedy slowly spirals into personal tragedy.
*The Times*
The prose is as simple and luminous as the fantasy it elaborates .
. . an interlude of exoticism and sensuous pleasure.
*Independent on Sunday*
Sheer enjoyment.
*Guardian*
The miracle of this book is Godden’s genius for storytelling.
*Evening Standard*
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