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Rumer Godden (1907-98) was the acclaimed author of over sixty works of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Born in England, she and her siblings grew up in Narayanganj, India, and she later spent many years living in Calcutta and Kashmir. Several of her novels were made into films, including Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The River, which was filmed by Jean Renoir. She was appointed OBE in 1993.
It's a masterpiece of construction and utterly, realistically
convincing - though it has a fairytale element too. Rumer Godden's
books are admired for many qualities . . . but I think her greatest
strength is her accurate, unsentimental portrayal of children.
Lovejoy, Tip and Sparkey were so real to me that they have stayed
alive in my head for more than fifty years . . . An Episode of
Sparrows was the first book that made me cry when I was ten. I
cried all over again at this recent reading of the story - and I
closed the book with the same sense of total satisfaction
*New Spectator*
May well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed
to weep over the printed page . . . author Godden here tries her
deft writing hand at landscaping a child's heart
*Time*
It is a sentimental tale, well told, with an unlikely and entirely
satisfactory ending
*New Yorker*
It would be impossible for a reader not to feel better from reading
the story . . . her rich understanding of human nature, her humor
and her beautiful prose inevitably leave one aglow
*Chicago Tribune*
Extraordinarily gifted writer who manages to infuse her novels with
a special magic of their own
*Boston Herald*
It has a dizzying cast of characters, radiating out from the
inhabitants of a once-genteel London residential square to the
residents of the teeming commercial streets beyond
*Horn Book*
A gentle, poignant story, poetically conceived with a fairy
godmother ending. Recommended for all
*Library Journal*
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