
A new york times–bestselling novel of the lives, loves, and foibles of five generations of a British family occupying a manor house in Wales. With thrilling literary leaps across the decades, the story of a British dynasty is told in enthralling detail. For nearly one hundred and fifty years the Quin family has lived at China Court, their magnificent estate in the Welsh countryside.
It is a chronicle of wives and husbands; of mothers, sons, and daughters; of those who could never stray far from the lush grounds of China Court and the outcasts and outsiders who would never truly belong. . A family’s loves, forming an intricate tapestry of heart-wrenching humanity, triumphs, and scandals are laid bare, pains, in a remarkable work of fiction from one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. Bearing comparison to one hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, compassion, Rumer Godden’s novel relates the history of a family with sensitivity, wit, and a compelling touch of magical realism.
The River: A Novel

When captain john, beset by a rush of unfamiliar emotions: longing, a handsome soldier returning wounded from the battlefield, Harriet is instantly entranced, jealousy, becomes her family’s new neighbor, infatuation. Often left alone by an overworked father and preoccupied mother, Harriet is enchanted by the local festivals, colors, and vibrant life surrounding her.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. The ganges river runs through young Harriet’s world. The eleven-year-old daughter of the british owner of a successful jute concern, India, she loves her life in Bengal, on the river’s edge, so far removed from the English boarding school she attended before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe.
. Evocative, and bittersweet, heartfelt, it is a coming-of-age story without equal from a major twentieth-century novelist. Now, as she stands on the brink of adulthood—too old to play childish games with her reckless little brother, Bogey, yet too young to be touched by such grown-up concerns as the faraway Second World War—a stranger’s unexpected arrival will rock her world.
But the inevitable change inherent in growing older may be too heavy a burden for a young girl to bear when it carries with it disappointment and heartbreaking loss.
A Fugue in Time: A Novel

But that living history is not ending quite yet, for the war is bringing a stranger from America to Number 99 Wiltshire Place to leave her indelible mark on it. Yesterday, griselda; his father, and tomorrow share the same space inside the old house, today, and every occupant from the past hundred years lives there still: Rolls’s ill-fated mother, the all-seeing “Eye”; his eight sisters and brothers.
A century of a family’s history remains alive and vibrant within these walls, the events that defined their lives unfolding over and over again. Ghosts past, present, and future haunt an old London house in this masterful work of fiction from a New York Times–bestselling author. Now, the elderly former general has been told that he must vacate the premises when the ninety-nine-year lease is up, in the early days of World War II, leaving the only home he has ever known.
Even rollo, continues to reside in number 99, as does Lark, the young boy Sir Rolls once was, the adopted orphan whom he loved but let slip away. . This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. Sir roland ironmonger dane is the last of his family to occupy the house at Number 99 Wiltshire Place in London.
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Novel

A sense of adventure and an eagerness to savor life to the fullest impel young, orphaned Elizabeth Fanshawe to escape her cold, unloving home and enlist in the British Army as a driver in 1944. . Rumer godden, author of black narcissus and In This House of Brede, has crafted a truly transformative tale about faith, forgiveness, and the mercy of a loving God.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. But after she meets the charming, seductive Patrice Ambard, Elizabeth’s life takes a sharp turn down a very dark road. A haunting tale of disgrace, degradation, where soeur marie lise of the sisters of Bethany remembers her years of sin and her eventual salvation, and glorious redemption told in flashbacks from the convent of Belle Source, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is moving and powerful fiction from one of the most admired British novelists of the twentieth century.
From a new york times–bestselling author: a novel of a woman’s journey from prostitute to brothel madam to murderess to nun in post–World War II France. Her love for the dashing, into patrice’s world of crime and high-class prostitution, now called Lise, hardened, where she is broken, hypnotic Frenchman draws Elizabeth, and then transformed into the whore-turned-notorious-madam known as La Balafrée, or the Scarred One.
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The Greengage Summer: A Novel

The young ones find a willing guide, companion, and protector in charming Englishman Eliot, a longtime resident at Les Oeillets and Mlle. . A sixteen-year-old girl captures the dangerous attention of an older man in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of Black Narcissus. Zizi’s apparent paramour.
Grey brings her five young children to the French countryside for the summer in hopes of instilling in them a sense of history and humility. And as eliot’s fascination increases, so does the jealousy of his disrespected lover, adding fuel to a dangerously smoldering fire that could erupt into unexpected violence at any moment.
It remains one of the crowning literary achievements of Rumer Godden, acclaimed author of beloved classics Black Narcissus, The River, and In This House of Brede. This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. But when she is struck down by a sudden illness and hospitalized, watchful eyes of its owner, bullet-scarred hotel Les Oeillets, the siblings are left to fend for themselves at the lovely, under the suspicious, Mademoiselle Zizi.
Soon after the end of the terrible Great War, Mrs.
The Lady and the Unicorn: A Novel

Her beautiful twin, rosa, dreams of a different, however, grander escape and foolishly puts her faith in love. An extraordinary novel rich in color and heartbreaking human drama, The Lady and the Unicorn is the poignant tale of one family’s struggle to make a future in a society blinded by prejudice and divided by caste.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. Rejected by her own siblings due to the darkness of her skin, the lonely little girl wanders the halls and grounds, enjoying the fantasy of a phantom pet while communing with ghosts only the purest of souls can see.
For blanche, the entire world is the decaying estate the Lemarchants share with other Anglo-Indian outcasts. A powerful story of coming-of-age and coming to terms, it is a masterful fiction from one of the preeminent British authors of the twentieth century. Three sisters battle poverty and prejudice in 1930s India in this heart-wrenching tale from a New York Times–bestselling novelist.
Having grown to young womanhood in poverty—the result of their father’s indolence and society’s intolerance—tough-minded Belle is determined to improve her lot in life, even if it means compromising her principles and her pride.
The Peacock Spring: A Novel

Based in part on rumer godden’s personal experiences and informed by her love of the Indian continent, where she spent the better part of her early life, The Peacock Spring is a beautiful and heartbreaking novel of loss of innocence and coming-of-age from the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus and The River.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. But what begins as a simple friendship soon blossoms into a love forbidden by society, threatening to end in scandal and disaster. Though no longer a child, the calculating and beautiful Alix Lamont, she is expected to submit to the will of a Eurasian governess, whose relationship with the girls’ father appears more intimate and troubling than merely employee–employer.
At fifteen and twelve, the daughters of Sir Edward Gwithiam of the diplomatic service have already seen more of the world than most children their age. For hal, india is a glorious adventure, filled with exotic sights and sounds, and a host of interesting new people. From the new york times–bestselling author of The Greengage Summer: Two English sisters’ lives are transformed when their father brings them to India.
Then ravi, a young indian gardener, brings a welcome light into Una’s life, relieving her sadness and loneliness with poetry and compassion.
Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Novel

For plain, awkward, eleven-year-old emily, the “homecoming” offers both an exciting change from cosmopolitan Paris and a harsh immersion into the adult world. Intrigued by the sights, and smells of her exotic new home, sounds, she’s left free to explore—and enjoy the hospitality and kindness of their glamorous neighbors, the Nikolides.
The faults and foibles of both parents and the irreparable cracks in their union become all too apparent from a daughter’s close-up perspective. Now, louise is reluctantly returning to east bengal, with Europe engulfed in the flames of World War II and Germany’s Nazi juggernaut rolling through occupied France, where Charles runs a government farm that hosts an Indian agricultural school.
A troubled european family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this “absorbing” novel from a New York Times–bestselling author Kirkus Reviews. But it is an extreme act of thoughtless cruelty that will ultimately shatter the tenuous bonds of family, violently disrupting the lives of the Pools and the community at large.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. Eight years ago, charles, in india, disillusion, fleeing a marriage marked by anger, Louise Pool left her husband, and mistrust.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita: A Novel

This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. So together they decide to take drastic action. . Now fanny is gone, whisked off to the north of Italy by her famous filmmaker lover, leaving behind the jagged pieces of her broken family.
Their english country home has been abandoned in favor of a London flat, and the fate of their adored pony, Topaz, is in serious question. The lives of the two clavering children, british Army colonel Darrell and the formerly solid, Hugh and Caddie, have been abruptly upended by the bitter divorce of their parents, dependable Fanny.
Traveling alone across europe, the siblings arrive at Quillet’s pastoral Italian villa overlooking Lake Garda, determined to do battle with the man responsible for the destruction of their family. While hugh, at fourteen, he is fiercely protective of stubborn, rebellious Caddie, understands the ways of the adult world better than his twelve-year-old sister, who refuses to accept the situation or the hollow sympathy of grown-ups.
Two english children travel to italy to rescue their wayward mother from her lover and save their family in this New York Times–bestselling novel. There can be no peace until they are victorious—and victory will only be achieved when they bring their mother home.
In This House of Brede: A Novel

The result is an honest and unforgettable novel of love, and devotion, sacrifice, a major literary achievement from the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus and The River. This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. For most of her adult life, Philippa Talbot has been a successful British professional.
Now in her forties, the world war ii–widow has made a startling decision: She’s giving up her civil service career and elite social standing to join a convent as a postulant Roman Catholic nun. Author rumer godden spent three years living in close proximity to Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire communing with the Benedictine nuns in preparation for the writing of this beloved bestseller.
But a time of great upheaval in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church approaches as the winds of change blow at gale force. In sussex in the south of england, Philippa begins her new life inside Brede Abbey, a venerable, 130-year-old Benedictine monastery. From their personal stories, as the confidence, both uplifting and heartbreaking, conflicts, Philippa draws great strength in the weeks, and years that follow, months, and poignant humanity of her fellow sisters serve to validate her love and sacred purpose.
Black Narcissus: A Novel

Five nuns confront nature—physical and human—in a remote Himalayan convent in this bestselling novel that “bears comparison with A Passage to India” Arthur Koestler. . Dean. Their aim is to help combat superstition, and to silence the doubts of their royal benefactor’s agent, ignorance, and disease among the mistrusting natives in the village below, the hard-drinking and somewhat disreputable Mr.
The basis for the golden globe and academy award–winning motion picture starring Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus has been universally praised for its poignancy, passion, and rich evocation of a time and place. There, in the opulent, abandoned palace where an Indian general housed his harem, the holy sisters hope to establish a school and a health clinic.
And their burdens may prove too heavy to bear, exposing a vulnerable humanity that threatens to undermine the best intentions of the purest hearts. An intensely human story of devotion, and madness, faith, this beloved novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of In This House of Brede stands among the finest fiction written in the twentieth century.
But all too soon, the isolation, and the literally breathtaking beauty of this high, the ghosts and lurid history, lonely place in the Asian mountains begin to take a serious toll on Sister Clodagh and her fellow nuns.