Kingfishers Catch Fire - Softcover

Godden, Rumer

 
9780915943814: Kingfishers Catch Fire

Synopsis

In colonial India, Sophie Barrington Ward, a recently widowed Englishwoman with two young children, tries to make a life for her family in a small village, but her disregard for local politics and customs results in a near-tragic misunderstanding

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Review

'A haunting tale... the whole book burns with the beauty and poetry of a matchless landscape, but the human side of it is wry, delicate and ture' - Daily Telegraph; 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' - Philip Hensher

About the Author

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 Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The Peacock Spring. She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998.

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