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Rumer Godden (1907-1998) 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 Kolkata 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.She has distilled in<b> simple, luminous prose </b>the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence
- Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Sunday Times
[Godden's]<b> distinctive, poised and unsentimental books</b> have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal
- Rosie Thomas, Guardian
[Godden has] a <b>genius for storytelling</b>
Evening Standard
All [Godden's novels] have one important thing in common: They are<b> beautifully and simply wrought by a woman of depth and sensitivity</b>
Los Angeles Times
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Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood . . .
For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal and observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and in their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . .
'She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence' Lucy Hughes-Hallet
'A heart-wrenchingly truthful evocation of the transition from child to adult, combined with Godden's pitch-perfect descriptions' Guardian
'A genius for storytelling' Evening Standard