Kingfishers Catch Fire. (0 333 01446 4) - Hardcover

Godden, Rumer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333014464 ISBN 13: 9780333014462

Publisher: Viking,, 1953

Synopsis

Sophie, a young English woman with two children, goes to set up home in fabulous Kashmir, finding a tumbled-down house in a valley carpeted with flowers below the Himalayas. Settling down to live there she is blissfully ignorant of the turmoil that her arrival produces. Sophie's cook is finally prompted to take action and the consequences of his innocent plotting are catastrophic.

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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.

From Library Journal

This 1953 volume displays the familiar Godden premise of Britishers in India. In this instance, Sophie Barrington-Ward and her daughter set up house in Kashmir to live among the noble savages, whom they discover are more savage than noble after the girl is nearly beaten to death by other children and the servant attempts to poison Sophie. With characters that are "well drawn" and "the dreamy Indian landscape lovely to read about" ( LJ 5/15/53), this is for all large fiction collections.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Viking,
• Publication date: 1953
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333014464
• ISBN 13: 9780333014462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282