The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden is a beautiful and heartbreaking novel of loss of innocence and coming-of-age from the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus.
Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was the author of more than sixty works of
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature, and is
considered by many to be one of the foremost English language
writers of the twentieth century. Born in Sussex, England, she
moved with her family to Narayanganj, colonial India (now
Bangladesh) when she was six months old.
Godden began her writing career with Chinese Puzzle in 1936 and
achieved international fame three years later with her third book,
Black Narcissus.
She returned to the United Kingdom for good at the end of the
Second World War and continued her prolific literary career with
the acclaimed novels The Greengage Summer, In This House of Brede
and numerous others. Godden won the Whitbread Award for children's
literature in 1972, and in 1993 she was named an Officer of the
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Nine of her novels have
been made into motion pictures. She died at the age of ninety in
Dumfriesshire, UK.
Adolescent romance turns to sexual passion, then turmoil, as Una’s
coming-of-age exposes racial and social prejudices in 1950s India.
The richness and colour of Delhi are in stark contrast with
repressed British order in this lush, expansive novel where
everyone is hiding something.
*Daily Mail*
One of the finest English novelists.
*Orville Prescott*
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