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  • The Lady and the Unicorn

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Three sisters battle poverty and prejudice in 1930s India in this heart-wrenching tale from a New York Times–bestselling novelist.Life is difficult for the three Lemarchant sisters in the latter years of the British Raj. Born of two cultures and rejected by both—the "half-caste" daughters of an Englishman and an Indian mother—twins Belle and Rosa and their younger sibling, Blanche, live with their ... Read more

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  • The India Novels Volume One

    Black Narcissus, Breakfast with the Nikolides, and The River

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Three unforgettable novels from a New York Times–bestselling author—including Black Narcissus, which "bears comparison with A Passage to India" (Arthur Koestler).With Black Narcissus, her novel of five nuns in a remote Himalayan convent struggling against nature—both physical and human—Rumer Godden established her impeccable literary reputation. The New York Times wrote of her work: "Her ... Read more

    $27.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greengage Summer

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    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.Soon after the end of the terrible Great War, Mrs. 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. But when she is struck down by a sudden illness and ... Read more

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  • The Dark Horse

    by Rumer Godden ...
    The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in "one of the greatest horse books ever written. . . . Moving, and highly original" (Lauren St. John, author of The White Giraffe).In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses belonging to wealthy owners, and Mother Morag, who lives just down the road and leads a group of nuns working with Calcutta's poor, ... Read more

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  • The India Novels Volume Two

    Cromartie vs. the God Shiva, The Lady and the Unicorn, The Peacock Spring, and Coromandel Sea Change

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Four evocative and moving works of fiction set in India from the New York Times– bestselling author of Black Narcissus —including her final novel.Having spent her formative years in colonial India, British novelist Rumer Godden would continue to return to that setting for inspiration throughout her career—from her best known work about five nu... ... Read more

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  • Cromartie vs. the God Shiva

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Love, intrigue, and death ensue when a statue of a Hindu god is stolen from an Indian hotel in this masterwork from a New York Times–bestselling author.Sydney Cromartie is aghast when London officials inform him that his precious statuette of the Hindu god Shiva is in fact an artifact stolen from India, its mother country. But, despite the insistence of the Indian government, the irate Canadian ... Read more

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  • The Peacock Spring

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Greengage Summer: Two English sisters' lives are transformed when their father brings them to India.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. But when Una and her younger sister, Halcyon, are summoned from their English boarding school to ... Read more

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  • Coromandel Sea Change

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    A hotel in southern India is home to a host of romantic intrigues and human misadventures in this delightful novel from a New York Times–bestselling author.Over a decade before The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, award-winning author Rumer Godden was delighting readers with the exploits of the residents and staff at a quaint getaway resort in southern India.Wily and winning Anglo-Indian hotel owner ... Read more

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  • Black Narcissus

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Five nuns confront nature—physical and human—in a remote Himalayan convent in the bestselling novel that inspired the new FX miniseries.Under the guidance of Sister Clodagh, the youngest Mother Superior in the history of their order, five European Sisters of the Servants of Mary leave their monastery in Darjeeling, India, and make their way to remote Mopu in the foothills of the Himalayan ... Read more

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  • A Fugue in Time

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Ghosts past, present, and future haunt an old London house in this masterful work of fiction from a New York Times–bestselling author.Sir Roland Ironmonger Dane is the last of his family to occupy the house at Number 99 Wiltshire Place in London. Now, in the early days of World War II, the elderly former general has been told that he must vacate the premises when the ninety-nine-year lease is up, ... Read more

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  • China Court

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    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.For nearly one hundred and fifty years the Quin family has lived at China Court, their magnificent estate in the Welsh countryside. The land, gardens, and breathtaking home have been maintained, cherished, and ultimately passed along—from Eustace and Adza in ... Read more

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  • The River

    A Novel

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Facing harsh adult realities, a young English girl in India must leave childhood behind, in this masterful tale from a New York Times–bestselling author.The Ganges River runs through young Harriet's world. The eleven-year-old daughter of the British owner of a successful jute concern, she loves her life in Bengal, India, on the river's edge, so far removed from the English boarding school she ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus